by Matthew Johnson | Apr 25, 2025 | PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics
By Shane Padilla and Matt Johnson – Recently, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“the Board”) was persuaded to consider the merits of three out of seven concurrent petitions for an inter partes review of a single patent due to the patent’s complicated claiming...
by Matthew Johnson | Apr 8, 2025 | Prior Art Issues, PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics
By Ernie Oleksy and Matt Johnson – The PTAB recently provided a pre-AIA priority analysis for reference patents in Roku, Inc. v. Anonymous Media Research Holdings, LLC, No. IPR2024-01057, Paper 10 (P.T.A.B. Feb. 10, 2025). This decision highlights the...
by Matthew Johnson | Apr 3, 2025 | PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics, Trial Institution
By Joshua Nightingale and Daniel Sloan – Recent developments at the USPTO suggest a significant shift in favor of the PTAB exercising discretionary denial and uncertainty on behalf of parties to PTAB proceedings. On March 24, 2025, following the February 28,...
by Matthew Johnson | Mar 28, 2025 | PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics, Trial Institution
By Jennifer Chheda, Yi Dulkeith, and Tova Werblowsky – A new interim process for the Director to exercise discretion as to whether to institute an inter partes review(IPR) or a post grant review (PGR) was announced on March 26, 2025, in which discretionary...
by Matthew Johnson | Mar 25, 2025 | PTAB News, Trial Institution
By Matt Johnson – After rescinding the June 2022 guidance regarding Fintiv, the PTAB issued updates to how they will consider discretionary denial issues under Section 314(a) on Monday. The updated guidance states: On February 28, 2025, the USPTO rescinded the...
by Matthew Johnson | Mar 25, 2025 | Claim Construction, Federal Circuit Appeal, PTAB News
By Alexa Grillis and Matt Johnson – The Federal Circuit upheld the PTAB’s decision deeming an integrated circuit connector patent unpatentable for obviousness, despite concluding that the Board’s claim construction was erroneous. The Court also rejected a...
