by Matthew Johnson | Nov 26, 2024 | Estoppel, Evidentiary Issues, Prior Art Issues
By Dalton Earich,* Matt Modderman, and Matt Johnson – On October 25, 2024, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ordered Comcast Corporation (“Comcast”) to identify the date on which it learned of each patent, patent...
by Matthew Johnson | Sep 20, 2024 | Estoppel, Evidentiary Issues, Final Written Decisions, PTAB News
By Fabian Bramwell,* Daniel Sloan, Jen Bachorik, and Matt Johnson – On June 6, 2024, the PTAB issued a Final Written Decision concluding claims 1-6 of U.S. Patent No. 8,899,655 B1 (“the ’655 patent”) unpatentable. Yita LLC v. MacNeil IP LLC, IPR2023-00172,...
by Matthew Johnson | Sep 4, 2024 | Claim Construction, District Court, Estoppel, PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics
By Sue Gerber and Matt Johnson – In 2016, the Federal Circuit expressed doubt that claim constructions from the PTAB could give rise to estoppel in later litigation because “the [PTAB] applies the broadest reasonable construction of the claims while the district...
by Matthew Johnson | Aug 28, 2024 | District Court, Estoppel, PTAB News
By Shane Padilla, Matt Chung, Sarah Geers, and Matt Johnson – The Federal Circuit recently issued a decision in SoftView LLC v. Apple Inc. clarifying the scope of patent owner estoppel set forth in 37 C.F.R. § 42.73(d)(3)(i). 2024 WL 3543902 (Fed. Cir. July 26,...
by Matthew Johnson | Jun 28, 2024 | District Court, Estoppel, Federal Circuit, PTAB News
By Sabrina Bellantoni and Matt Johnson – Recently, District Court Judge Thomas S. Zilly in the Western District of Washington granted Ironburg Inventions Ltd.’s (“Ironburg”) motion for inter partes review (“IPR”) estoppelpursuant to 35 U.S.C. § 315(e)(2), which...
by Tom Ritchie | Jan 31, 2024 | District Court, Estoppel, PTAB News
By Tom Ritchie – In GeigTech East Bay v. Lutron Electronics, patent owner GeigTech argued that Lutron should be estopped under 35 U.S.C. § 325(e)(2) from asserting two prior art grounds that it said Lutron could have reasonably raised in its post-grant review...
