by David Cochran | Oct 20, 2017 | PTAB News
By Dave Cochran Jones Day has joined forces with the North Carolina Central University (NCCU) School of Law’s IP Law Institute, as well as Fish & Richardson and the SAS Institute Inc., to launch the Post-Grant Clinic. The joint effort launched during a...
by Matthew Johnson | Sep 17, 2017 | PTAB News
By Matt Johnson The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has released AIA trial filing and disposition numbers for July 2017. Filings remain near the 150 mark, with 138 total trials being requested in July, 135 of those being requests for Inter Partes Review. This is down...
by John Marlott | Sep 1, 2017 | PTAB News
By Christian Damon and John Marlott In a prior post we compared the different standards for claim indefiniteness applied by courts in litigation and by the USPTO during pre-issuance and post-issuance proceedings. Another of our previous posts profiled a real-world...
by Jones Day's PTAB Team | Jul 25, 2017 | Final Written Decisions, PTAB News
By Christian Damon The ITC recently continued its trend of giving little deference to parallel PTAB IPR proceedings. In Certain Network Devices, Related Software and Components Thereof (II), Inv. No. 337-TA-945, the ITC denied a request to suspend or rescind a...
by Greg Castanias | Jul 21, 2017 | PTAB News
By Greg Castanias On July 20, SAS Institute, Inc., represented by Jones Day, filed its opening brief in the Supreme Court. SAS’s brief amplifies the arguments, initially set forth in its petition for certiorari and reply brief in support of certiorari, that...
by Doug Pearson | Jul 3, 2017 | PTAB News
By Doug Pearson On June 21, Senators Chris Coons (D-Del), Tom Cotton (R-Ark), Dick Durbin (D-Ill), and Mazie Hironoa (D-Hawaii) introduced a bill entitled the “Support Technology & Research for Our Nation’s Growth and Economic Resilience Patents Act of 2017” (or...
