by Jones Day's PTAB Team | Oct 20, 2016 | Federal Circuit Appeal, Petitions, PTAB Trial Basics
On July 25, 2016, the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued a decision in In re: Magnum Tools Int’l, Ltd., No. 2015-1300 (Fed. Cir. Jul. 25, 2016) confirming that the burden of proving invalidity lies with the petitioner throughout the entire...
by Carl Kukkonen | Oct 18, 2016 | Federal Circuit Appeal, Standing, Trial Institution
By Carl Kukkonen Last month, the Federal Circuit in Husky Injection Molding Systems Ltd. v. Athena Automation Ltd., Nos. 2015-1726, 2015-1727 (Fed. Cir. Sep. 23, 2016) addressed the issue of whether assignor estoppel may bar a party from filing a petition for inter...
by Jones Day's PTAB Team | Oct 11, 2016 | Federal Circuit Appeal, Real Party in Interest
The PTAB is beginning to address a small stream of cases reversed and remanded by the Federal Circuit, and the scope of what the PTAB will consider on remand is of interest. In Corning Optical Communications RF, LLC v. PPC Broadband, Inc., IPR2013-00340, Paper 85...
