by Josh Nightingale | Jan 24, 2022 | Discovery, Motions Practice
By Christian Roberts and Josh Nightingale – The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) recently denied a Motion for Additional Discovery because the movant could not prove beyond mere speculation that the requested documents would be useful to show witness...
by Matthew Johnson | Nov 10, 2021 | Evidentiary Issues, Motions Practice
By Christian Roberts and Matt Johnson – Introducing evidence in a motion to file a reply to a patent owner’s preliminary response without the PTAB’s authorization may result in denial and expungement. A recent motion met such a fate in Ice Castles, LLC v....
by Matthew Johnson | Nov 9, 2021 | Motions Practice, PTAB Trial Basics
By Hannah Mehrle and Matt Johnson – Patent Owner (Provisur Technologies) requested authorization to file a motion to strike portions of Petitioner’s (Weber, Inc.) Reply and certain evidence submitted therewith, which Petitioner opposed. Patent Owner argued that...
by David Maiorana | Sep 23, 2021 | Evidentiary Issues, Motions Practice
By Lisa Furby and Dave Maiorana – In Apple, Inc. v. Parus Holdings, Inc. (IPR2020-00686), the PTAB denied the Patent Owner’s motion to exclude portions of the Petitioner’s supplemental expert declaration. Here the Patent Owner sought to exclude a number of...
by Carl Kukkonen | Aug 16, 2021 | Discovery, Motions Practice, PTAB News, Real Party in Interest
By Carl Kukkonen – In Unified Patents, LLC f/k/a Unified Patents Inc. v. Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (IPR2021-00827), the PTAB denied a patent owner’s request to file a motion for additional discovery into any real...
by Josh Nightingale | Jul 9, 2021 | Motions Practice
By Sachin Patel and Josh Nightingale – After an initial denial, the PTAB recently granted Unified Patents’ motions for entry of protective order and for seal in Unified Patents, LLC v. Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, IPR2020-01048, Paper...