by Greg Castanias | Mar 6, 2019 | Federal Circuit, PTAB News
By Gregory A. Castanias, Daniel Kazhdan, and Jihong Lou As we wrote previously, the Federal Circuit sitting en banc held that a patent applicant can seek district court review of a PTO rejection of its application without having to pay for the time the PTO’s attorneys...
by Emily Tait | Feb 6, 2019 | PTAB News
By Emily Tait Since April 2018 when the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its Oil States decision, patent owners have made various arguments addressing issues that were not resolved in that case. One such example is Christy, Inc. v. United States, Case No. 1:18-cv-00657...
by Greg Castanias | Jan 17, 2019 | Federal Circuit Appeal, PTAB News, Time Limits
By Greg Castanias and Doug Pearson On January 11, 2019, Dex Media filed a Petition for Writ of Certiorari seeking review of the Federal Circuit’s decision in Click-To-Call Tech. v. Ingenio, Inc., 899 F.3d 1321 (Fed. Cir. 2018) (en banc in relevant part). ...
by Matthew Johnson | Jan 17, 2019 | PTAB News
Jones Day was recognized by the legal publication Law360 for its 2018 “Practice Groups of the Year” awards in the Intellectual Property and Product Liability categories. Now in their ninth year, the awards “honor the law firms behind the litigation...
by David Maiorana | Jan 9, 2019 | PTAB News, Request for Reconsideration
By Dave Maiorana Under 37 C.F.R. § 42.5(d), communications with a Board member regarding a specific proceeding are not permitted “unless both parties have an opportunity to be involved in the communication.” This prohibition, however, does not extend to “referring to...
by Matthew Johnson | Dec 27, 2018 | PTAB News
By Matt Johnson – The PTAB’s November statistics confirmed the expected jump in PTAB filings in November, with many petitioners seeking to file petitions before the changeover from the BRI to Phillips claim construction standard. 212 petitions for IPR,...
