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...
by Joe Sauer | Jan 2, 2017 | Final Written Decisions, PTAB News
By Joe Sauer The Patent Trial and Appeal Board publishes monthly statistics tracking numerous aspects of AIA Petition filings and how they are resolved. The AIA Trial Statistics through the end of November 2016 are available here. Reviewing the data for 2016, the most...
by Matthew Johnson | Nov 23, 2016 | Other News, PTAB News
In April 2016, the PTO launched its Post Grant Outcomes Pilot, an initiative to inform Examiners of relevant PTAB proceedings regarding patents related to an application (e.g., a continuation, divisional, continuation-in-part) that they are currently examining....
by David Maiorana | Nov 10, 2016 | PTAB News
By Dave Maiorana The U.S. Supreme Court has denied two of the three pending constitutional challenges to inter partes review (“IPR”). In MCM v. HP, No. 15-1330, patent owner MCM Portfolio LLC (“MCM”) challenged the constitutionality of IPRs on...
