by Matthew Johnson | May 23, 2025 | Discovery, PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics, Time Limits
By Daniel Sloan and Matt Johnson – USPTO Acting Director Coke Morgan Stewart recently vacated and remanded three Final Written Decisions from the PTAB. Semiconductor Components Indus. v. Greenthread, LLC, IPR2023-01242, IPR2023-01243, IPR2023-01244, Paper 94...
by Matthew Johnson | May 21, 2025 | Estoppel, PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics
By Evan Tassis and Matt Johnson – Recently, an ITC Administrative Law Judge applied IPR statutory estoppel under 35 U.S.C. § 315(e)(2) in denying a Respondent’s motion for summary determination of invalidity in Certain Audio Players and Components Thereof,...
by Matthew Johnson | May 15, 2025 | Estoppel, Prior Art Issues, PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics
By Omar Jishi and Matt Johnson – In IOENGINE, LLC v. Ingenico Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2025), the Federal Circuit narrowed the scope of IPR estoppel under 35 U.S.C. § 315(e)(2), which precludes an IPR petitioner from asserting in court that a patent claim “is invalid on...
by Matthew Johnson | May 1, 2025 | 325(d) issues, Trial Institution
By Levent Herguner and Matt Johnson – In Thermaltake Technology Co., Ltd. et al v. Chien-Hao Chen et al, IPR2024-01230, Paper 12 (PTAB Feb. 19, 2025), the PTAB granted the institution of inter partes review (“IPR”) while an ex parte reexamination (“EPR”) on the...
by Matthew Johnson | Apr 25, 2025 | PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics
By Shane Padilla and Matt Johnson – Recently, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“the Board”) was persuaded to consider the merits of three out of seven concurrent petitions for an inter partes review of a single patent due to the patent’s complicated claiming...
