by David Maiorana | May 7, 2025 | PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics, Trial Institution
By David Linden, Dave Maiorana, and Sue Gerber – On August 22, 2024, Hulu, LLC (“Hulu”) filed two separate petitions for inter partes review (“IPR”) of U.S. Patent No. 11,463,768 (“the ’768 Patent”), assigned to Piranha Media Distribution, LLC (“Piranha”). The...
by Matthew Johnson | Apr 25, 2025 | PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics
By Shane Padilla and Matt Johnson – Recently, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“the Board”) was persuaded to consider the merits of three out of seven concurrent petitions for an inter partes review of a single patent due to the patent’s complicated claiming...
by Matthew Johnson | Apr 8, 2025 | Prior Art Issues, PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics
By Ernie Oleksy and Matt Johnson – The PTAB recently provided a pre-AIA priority analysis for reference patents in Roku, Inc. v. Anonymous Media Research Holdings, LLC, No. IPR2024-01057, Paper 10 (P.T.A.B. Feb. 10, 2025). This decision highlights the...
by Matthew Johnson | Apr 3, 2025 | PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics, Trial Institution
By Joshua Nightingale and Daniel Sloan – Recent developments at the USPTO suggest a significant shift in favor of the PTAB exercising discretionary denial and uncertainty on behalf of parties to PTAB proceedings. On March 24, 2025, following the February 28,...
by Matthew Johnson | Mar 28, 2025 | PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics, Trial Institution
By Jennifer Chheda, Yi Dulkeith, and Tova Werblowsky – A new interim process for the Director to exercise discretion as to whether to institute an inter partes review(IPR) or a post grant review (PGR) was announced on March 26, 2025, in which discretionary...
by Matthew Johnson | Mar 19, 2025 | Federal Circuit Appeal, PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics
By Kait Crowder and Matt Johnson – Honeywell filed a petition for inter partes review of 3G Licensing’s U.S. Patent No. 7,319,718, which claims a coding scheme for transmitting information in 3G mobile communication systems. The PTAB found none of the...
