by Sarah Geers | Aug 29, 2025 | PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics, Request for Reconsideration, Trial Institution
By Adam Cook and Sarah Geers – For the first time under the bifurcated institution procedures, the Acting Director reversed her own prior discretionary denial, citing changed circumstances based on a settlement in the parallel district court litigation. See Arm...
by Sarah Geers | Feb 13, 2025 | PTAB News
By Sarah Geers and Connor Scholes – In the closing weeks of 2024, USPTO Director Kathi Vidal announced her departure in a November LinkedIn post, stating that she would leave the Office during the second week of December to rejoin the partnership of...
by Sarah Geers | Aug 1, 2024 | PTAB News, Trial Institution
By Scott Findley* and Sarah Geers – On July 9, 2024, Director Vidal reversed and remanded a denial of institution of inter partes review (IPR) relating to three Spin Master patents. See Prime Time Toys LLC v. Spin Master, Inc., IPR Nos. 2023-01339, 2023-01348,...
by Sarah Geers | May 1, 2024 | PTAB Trial Basics, Trial Institution
By Sarah Geers and Daniel Sloan – Director Vidal recently vacated three discretionary denials of institution after finding that the three petitioners did not have a “significant relationship” with a prior petitioner. American Honda Motor Co., Inc. v. Neo...
by Sarah Geers | Dec 28, 2023 | Prior Art Issues, PTAB News, Request for Reconsideration
By Luke Cipolla, Daniel Sloan, Robert Breetz, Sarah Geers, and Matt Johnson – USPTO Director Kathi Vidal recently designated precedential section II.E.3 of Penumbra, Inc. v. RapidPulse, Inc. and clarified that the priority analysis for an AIA reference patent as...
