by Matthew Johnson | Sep 16, 2019 | Joinder, Trial Institution
By Alex Li and Matt Johnson If you don’t have new grounds to add, you may as well copycat. On September 4, 2019, the PTAB denied Microsoft’s petition requesting inter partes review (“IPR”) of U.S. Patent No. 7,167,487 (“the ’487 patent”); furthermore, the panel also...
by Matthew Johnson | Sep 12, 2019 | PTAB Trial Basics, Standing
By Geoffrey Gavin and Matt Johnson The PTAB designated as precedential a January 2019 panel decision relating to the bar on instituting an IPR under 35 U.S.C. § 315(a)(1) when the petitioner previously filed a civil action challenging the validity of the patent. See...
by Matthew Johnson | Sep 6, 2019 | Other News
Jones Day’s PTAB Litigation Blog launched August 19, 2015. 428 posts later, it has become one of the most widely recognized and read PTAB practice blogs in existence. Jones Day partners Dave Cochran and Matt Johnson talk about the history and rationale for the...
by Matthew Johnson | Aug 27, 2019 | PTAB Trial Basics, Time Limits
By Tom Ritchie and Matt Johnson The PTAB Precedential Opinion Panel (“POP”) has concluded that the one-year time bar for filing an IPR petition under 35 U.S.C. § 315(b) is triggered by the service of a complaint alleging infringement even if “the serving party lacks...
by Matthew Johnson | Aug 19, 2019 | Petitions, Trial Institution
By Levent Herguner and Matt Johnson In a recent decision, the PTAB decided to institute inter partes review (“IPR”) of U.S. Patent No. 7,937,394 B2 despite Patent Owner’s claims that Petitioner engaged in gamesmanship and asserted references and combinations that were...
