by Matthew Johnson | Dec 24, 2018 | Pharmaceutical, PTAB News
Sen. Orrin Hatch has introduced a bill that would augment the Hatch-Waxman Act, limiting challengers ability to proceed with patent challenges both in court and at the PTAB. Following is the introduction of the “Hatch-Waxman Integrity Act of 2018.” The...
by Matthew Johnson | Dec 20, 2018 | PTAB News
The 2019 PTAB Bar Association Annual Conference will take place March 14 – 15, 2019, at the Ritz-Carlton in Washington, D.C. Pre-conference sessions will be offered March 13. The conference will bring together practitioners, in-house counsel, and members of the bench...
by Doug Pearson | Dec 12, 2018 | PTAB News, Time Limits
By Doug Pearson – As reported in a prior post, DexMedia, Inc. previously filed an Application for Extension of Time to File a Petition for a Writ of Certiorari requesting an extension of 30 days in which to file a cert petition challenging the Federal...
by Tim Heverin | Dec 7, 2018 | PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics
By Tim Heverin In September, the Patent Office revised Standing Operating Procedure 2 (available here) to create a new review path for designating opinions precedential or informational. See PTAB Litigation Blog discussion of SOP 2 here. Under the new...
by Joe Sauer | Nov 29, 2018 | Amendment Practice, Claim Construction, PTAB News
By Levent Herguner, Alex Li, and Joe Sauer On Tuesday, November 13th, the PTAB Bar Association held its inaugural Thought Leader Summit. The Summit featured two sessions on recent developments in the patent litigation field, as well as a keynote address from Acting...
by Doug Pearson | Nov 15, 2018 | PTAB News, Time Limits
By Doug Pearson As reported in a prior post, the Federal Circuit in Click-To-Call Tech. v. Ingenio, Inc., 2015-1242 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 16, 2018) (en banc) found in a divided 10-2 en banc decision that a voluntary dismissal without prejudice of a district court litigation...
