by Carl Kukkonen | Apr 5, 2021 | Federal Circuit Appeal, Other News
By Phillip Shelton* and Carl Kukkonen – According to a recent district court opinion, a party may waive its right to assert infringement on claims that it voluntarily agrees to give up (e.g., by abandoning the claims). Such a waiver will be enforced as an...
by Carl Kukkonen | Mar 30, 2021 | Other News
By Carl Kukkonen and Stephanie M. Mishaga – The Federal Circuit recently affirmed a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) finding that certain claims related to genetic inheritance data analysis are patent ineligible. The claims at issue sought to protect...
by Matthew Johnson | Mar 11, 2021 | Other News
By Zach Sharb and Matt Johnson – On February 26, 2021, the PTAB found in favor of Fox Factory, Inc. (“Fox”) on remand and cancelled the challenged claims of SRAM LLC’s (“SRAM”) U.S. Patent No. 9,182,027 (the ’027 Patent), directed towards anchoring a bicycle’s...
by John Evans, Ph.D. | Apr 27, 2020 | Design Patents, Other News
By Kerry Barrett and John Evans – Last October, the Federal Circuit reversed the PTAB’s decision that a challenged design patent was not obvious. Campbell Soup Co. v. Gamon Plus, Inc., 939 F.3d 1335 (Fed. Cir. 2019). We wrote about how the court applied a more...
by Gasper LaRosa | Oct 21, 2019 | Other News, Stay
By Gasper LaRosa and Stephanie M. Brooker What happens when patent claims are found unpatentable in inter partes review (“IPR”) and new claims are subsequently added to that patent through ex parte reexamination? The District Court for the Northern District of...
by Matthew Johnson | Sep 6, 2019 | Other News
Jones Day’s PTAB Litigation Blog launched August 19, 2015. 428 posts later, it has become one of the most widely recognized and read PTAB practice blogs in existence. Jones Day partners Dave Cochran and Matt Johnson talk about the history and rationale for the...