by Matthew Johnson | Aug 23, 2022 | Evidentiary Issues, PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics
By Sue Gerber and Matt Johnson – While creativity has its place in advocacy, it can be taken too far. The Petitioner learned this lesson the hard way in Unified Patents Inc. v. American Patents LLC, IPR2019-00482, Paper 132 (P.T.A.B. Aug. 3, 2022). In this...
by Matthew Johnson | May 13, 2022 | PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics
By Haytham Soliman and Matt Johnson – The PTAB recently denied institution of inter partes review (IPR) for claims 1 and 46 of U.S. 7,464,040 in eClinicalWorks, LLC et al. v. Decapolis Systems, LLC, IPR2022-0229, Paper 10 (PTAB April 13, 2022). The denial was...
by Matthew Johnson | Apr 1, 2022 | PTAB Trial Basics, Trial Institution
By Akosua Kyereme-Tuah, Mike Lavine, and Matt Johnson – The PTAB recently denied a motion to dismiss a Revised Petition and terminate an inter partes review (IPR) proceeding despite Petitioner’s alleged withdrawal of the Original Petition and failure to comply...
by Albert Liou | Jan 27, 2022 | PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics
By Albert Liou – On January 14, 2022, the PTAB issued a precedential opinion granting a request for rehearing of a denial of an IPR petition that had previously found a petition to be time-barred because the wire transfer had not been timely paid. Toshiba...
by Matthew Johnson | Jan 11, 2022 | PTAB Trial Basics
By Hannah Mehrle and Matt Johnson – Biofrontera AG (“Petitioner”) filed an unopposed motion to dismiss the petition during the preliminary phase of the proceedings. Here, DUSA Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Patent Owner”) had not yet filed a Preliminary Response, and...
by Carl Kukkonen | Jan 4, 2022 | PTAB Trial Basics, Trial Institution
By Carl Kukkonen – On December 14, 2021, the PTAB instituted Post-Grant Review (PGR) for certain claims of U.S. Pat. No. 10,855,671 (the ‘671 Patent) in Netskope, Inc. v. Bitglass, Inc., PGR2021-00091 while, on the same date, denying institution of a PGR for...
