by Tom Ritchie | Jun 25, 2025 | Federal Circuit, PTAB News, Real Party in Interest
By Em Towers and Tom Ritchie – Apple Inc., et. al v. Gesture Technology Partners, LLC (March 4, 2025) (Moore (Chief Judge), Prost and Stoll) (on appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board) [WAIVER; OBVIOUSNESS] The Federal Circuit affirmed the PTAB’s Final...
by Matthew Johnson | Apr 11, 2025 | Estoppel, Federal Circuit
By Zac Hardy and Matt Johnson – Kroy IP Holdings, LLC sued Groupon, Inc., alleging infringement of 13 claims of U.S. Patent No. 6,061,660 (“’660 patent’), which relates to incentive programs over computer networks. Those claims were invalidated via successful...
by Matthew Johnson | Feb 11, 2025 | Federal Circuit, PTAB News
By Parth Matalia and Matt Johnson – Palo Alto Networks (PAN) filed a petition for inter partes review of Centripetal Networks’ patent—U.S. Patent No. 10,530,903—which is directed to a computing system for correlating packets in communication networks with a...
by Matthew Johnson | Jan 23, 2025 | Federal Circuit, Prior Art Issues, PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics
By Adam J. Cook and Michael Oblon – On appeal from an inter partes review (“IPR”), the Federal Circuit held that, under pre-America Invents Act (“pre-AIA”) law, a published patent application is prior art as of its filing date as opposed to its later date of...
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 John Evans, Ph.D. | Feb 12, 2024 | Design Patents, Federal Circuit
By Jesse Wynn and John Evans – Changes to design patent validity law may be coming thanks to LKQ v. GM, a case that we’ve been tracking since April 2021. On February 5, 2024, in a rare en banc hearing, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit asked tough...
