by Matthew Johnson | Jan 17, 2019 | PTAB News
Jones Day was recognized by the legal publication Law360 for its 2018 “Practice Groups of the Year” awards in the Intellectual Property and Product Liability categories. Now in their ninth year, the awards “honor the law firms behind the litigation...
by Matthew Johnson | Jan 3, 2019 | Amendment Practice, PTAB Trial Basics
By Levent Herguner and Matt Johnson – On November 30, 2018, the PTAB filed an opinion addressing two procedural issues in Aver Information Inc. v. Pathway Innovations and Technologies, Inc., Case IPR2017-02108, including failure to meet spacing requirements and...
by Matthew Johnson | Dec 31, 2018 | Estoppel
By Marlee Hartenstein and Matt Johnson – Assignor estoppel is an equitable doctrine that prevents a party who assigns a patent to another from later challenging the validity of the assigned patent. As reported in a prior post, the Federal Circuit recently...
by Matthew Johnson | Dec 27, 2018 | PTAB News
By Matt Johnson – The PTAB’s November statistics confirmed the expected jump in PTAB filings in November, with many petitioners seeking to file petitions before the changeover from the BRI to Phillips claim construction standard. 212 petitions for IPR,...
by Matthew Johnson | Dec 26, 2018 | PTAB News, Stay
By Tom Ritchie and Matt Johnson In Microsoft Corp. v. Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe, the PTAB refused to stay ten IPRs filed by Microsoft while Patent Owner St. Regis appeals a Federal Circuit decision that tribal sovereign immunity cannot be asserted in an IPR proceeding....
