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 The updated guidance states: On February 28, 2025, the USPTO rescinded the...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...
by Matthew Johnson | Mar 19, 2025 | Federal Circuit Appeal, PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics
By Kait Crowder and Matt Johnson – Honeywell filed a petition for inter partes review of 3G Licensing’s U.S. Patent No. 7,319,718, which claims a coding scheme for transmitting information in 3G mobile communication systems. The PTAB found none of the...
by Carl Kukkonen | Mar 11, 2025 | Amendment Practice, Claim Construction, Federal Circuit Appeal, PTAB News
By Simon Maxwell and Carl Kukkonen – Back in May of 2020, European patent-licensing company Sisvel filed a flurry of lawsuits against a dozen tech companies who had allegedly infringed Sisvel’s portfolio of wireless communication and networking patents. A...
