by Greg Castanias | May 26, 2017 | Federal Circuit Appeal, Final Written Decisions, PTAB News
By Greg Castanias On Monday, May 22, the United States Supreme Court agreed to review the Federal Circuit’s decision in SAS Institute Inc. v. Lee, No. 16-969. The petition for certiorari, which was filed by Jones Day lawyers Greg Castanias, John Marlott, and Dave...
by David Maiorana | May 19, 2017 | PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics
By Dave Maiorana We have previously reported (on February 1, on March 1, and on March 30) how patent owners have seen a mixed bag of results in trying to convince PTAB panels that secondary considerations of non-obviousness were sufficient to outweigh a prima facie...
by Jones Day's PTAB Team | May 16, 2017 | Federal Circuit Appeal, PTAB News
By Greg Castanias, Sasha Mayergoyz, and Stuart Yothers On May 11, 2017, with six of its twelve active judges authoring or joining separate opinions, the Federal Circuit denied a petition for an initial hearing en banc which asked the full Court to address the question...
by Joe Sauer | Apr 26, 2017 | PTAB News
By Joe Sauer The Patent Office has announced an initiative to make procedural reforms in an effort to improve PTAB trial proceedings, particularly inter partes review proceedings. As part of this initiative, the USPTO will consider historical data from the last five...
by Matthew Johnson | Apr 15, 2017 | PTAB News, Trial Institution
By Matt Johnson PTAB trials are nearly always (~ 4 out of 5) driven by some concurrent litigation need, either a district court complaint of infringement filed against the petitioner or an International Trade Commission (ITC) investigation initiated by the patent...
by Matthew Johnson | Mar 2, 2017 | PTAB News
Post-Issue patentability trials at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board have become wildly more popular than was expected when they were introduced in September 2012. Petition filing rates have been nearly four times the levels originally predicted. The following...
