by Geoffrey Gavin | Aug 15, 2017 | Evidentiary Issues
By Geoffrey Gavin In Semiconductor Components Industries, LLC v. Power Integrations, IPR2016-00809, Paper 65 (PTAB Aug. 4, 2017), the PTAB denied the patent owner’s request for authorization to serve requests for production seeking documents and things related to...
by John Marlott | Jun 20, 2017 | Evidentiary Issues, PTAB Trial Basics
By Christian Damon and John Marlott By rule, a petitioner may request permission from the Board to submit supplemental information in an IPR proceeding if: (1) the request is filed within one month of the Board’s institution decision, and (2) the supplemental...
by Matthew Johnson | May 26, 2017 | Evidentiary Issues
By Emily Lamm and Matt Johnson In Polygroup Ltd. v. Willis Electric Co., Ltd., the Patent Trial and Appeal Board denied a Patent Owner request for documents already provided in a co-pending lawsuit but restricted from use by a protective order. IPR2016-01610, Paper...
by David Maiorana | Apr 11, 2017 | Evidentiary Issues
By Dave Maiorana If you are involved in an IPR and you are contemplating whether to rely on your own confidential information as part of a filing, you need to consider the risk that the Board will deny your motion to file under seal because it relied on that...
by David Maiorana | Mar 1, 2017 | Evidentiary Issues, Federal Circuit Appeal
By Dave Maiorana As reported in our February 1, 2017 post, patent owners have had a difficult time convincing the PTAB that secondary considerations are sufficient to overcome a prima facie case of obviousness. The Crown Packaging decision, highlighted in that post,...
by Cary Miller | Feb 17, 2017 | Evidentiary Issues, Trial Institution
By Lin Yu, Ph.D. and Cary Miller, Ph.D. In IPR2016-01566 (Mylan Pharmaceuticals Inc. v. Boehringer Ingelheim International GMBH), the PTAB denied institution of an inter partes review of U.S. Patent No. 9,173,859, in part, because Petitioner –Mylan – failed to provide...
