by Matthew Johnson | Jun 27, 2025 | Final Written Decisions, PTAB News, Request for Reconsideration
By Ned LaDuca,* Matt Modderman, Matt Johnson – A Delegated Rehearing Panel (“DRP”) recently modified the PTAB’s construction of the claim term “workload” and remanded, giving Mercedes-Benz USA, LLC (“Petitioner”) another opportunity to challenge a processor...
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 | Jun 19, 2025 | PTAB News, Trial Institution
By Levent Herguner, Aeden Bempong,* and Matt Johnson – On April 17, 2025, following Acting Director Coke Morgan Stewart’s memorandum announcing a new interim process to manage the workload of all PTAB judges, the USPTO held a Boardside Chat outlining the new...
by S. Christian Platt | Jun 10, 2025 | PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics, Stay, Trial Institution
By Sabrina Bellantoni & S. Christian Platt – The Patent Trial and Appeals Board (“PTAB”) recently denied institution of an inter partes review (“IPR”), exercising its discretion under 35 U.S.C. § 314(a) and Apple Inc. v. Fintiv Inc., IPR2020-00019 (PTAB Mar....
by Matthew Johnson | Jun 6, 2025 | PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics, Trial Institution
By Matt Johnson – The PTAB has published its monthly statistics wrap up for April 2025. As expected, those statistics show a significant decline in the institution rate compared to the first six months of the fiscal year. In those first six months, the overall...
by Matthew Johnson | Jun 3, 2025 | PTAB News, Time Limits, Trial Institution
By Daniel C. Sloan and Matt Johnson – On May 16, 2025, USPTO Acting Director Coke Morgan Stewart released the first four discretionary denial decisions under the PTAB’s new process. Under the new process, the parties separately brief discretionary denial issues...
