by Matthew Johnson | Jun 28, 2019 | Real Party in Interest
By Jihong Lou and Matt Johnson In Power Integrations v. Semiconductor Components, the Federal Circuit ruled that privy and real-party-in-interest (RPI) relationships arising after a petition is filed but before institution may bar institution under section 315(b). In...
by Matthew Johnson | Jun 20, 2019 | Stay
By Jen Bachorik and Matt Johnson The United States District Court for the Central District of California recently denied Defendant Adobe Systems Inc.’s motion to stay litigation pending resolution of parallel inter partes review (“IPR”) proceedings before the PTAB...
by Matthew Johnson | Jun 13, 2019 | Amendment Practice
By Levent Herguner and Matt Johnson In a rare successful motion to amend, the PTAB found certain claims of a pipeline monitoring system patentable, and allowed substitution of amended claims for others deemed unpatentable. See Syrinix Inc. v. Blacoh Fluid Control...
by Matthew Johnson | Jun 10, 2019 | Joinder, PTAB News
By Jihong Lou, Chris Liu, and Matt Johnson Since its inception through the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (“AIA”), the proper role and function of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“PTO”) in adversarial post-grant...
by Matthew Johnson | Jun 6, 2019 | Federal Circuit Appeal
By Geoff Xiao,* Mike Lavine, and Matt Johnson The Federal Circuit recently tightened the standing requirements for an IPR appeal in AVX Corp. v. Presidio Components, Inc., No. 18-1106, 2019 WL 2079178 (Fed. Cir. May 13, 2019). AVX previously challenged the validity of...
