by John Marlott | Jan 5, 2023 | Amendment Practice, PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics
By Sachin Patel and John Marlott – The Federal Circuit has upheld the PTAB’s relatively liberal approach to proposed claim amendments in an IPR, holding that so long as a proposed substitute claim includes an amendment made in response to an...
by Carl Kukkonen | Dec 21, 2022 | Discovery, District Court, PTAB News
By Carl Kukkonen – The PTAB in a recent PGR proceeding: SWM International, LLC et al v. DynaEnergetics Europe GmbH (PGR2021-00097), reiterated the requirements for additional discovery. In particular, in this matter, the petitioner, having access to excerpts...
by Matthew Johnson | Dec 13, 2022 | Final Written Decisions, Motions Practice, PTAB News
By Annie Scantling, Robby Breetz, Matt Johnson – A PTAB panel recently denied Linquet Technologies, Inc.’s (“Patent Owner”) motion to dismiss an IPR proceeding as moot despite a district court having already invalidated the patent because the final written...
by Matthew Johnson | Dec 8, 2022 | PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics
Jesse Wynn, Robert Breetz, Matt Johnson – The PTAB recently hosted a Boardside Chat on effectively presenting technology in AIA proceedings. Patent Trial and Appeal Board Boardside Chat: Presenting Technology in AIA Proceedings, (Nov. 17, 2022) (“Presenting...
by Josh Nightingale | Dec 5, 2022 | Estoppel, PTAB News
By Dhohyung Kim and Josh Nightingale – On November 16, 2022, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“PTO”) vacated a reexamination proceeding because the patent challenger relied on unpatentability grounds that reasonably could have been raised in an...
by Matthew Johnson | Dec 1, 2022 | PTAB News, Trial Institution
By Ashvi Patel and Matt Johnson – Patent Owner, IP Bridge, filed a patent infringement suit against Petitioner, Ericsson, for infringement of seven of its patents directed at radio communication between a base station and a mobile station and related apparatuses...