by Matthew Johnson | Jan 6, 2021 | Stay
By Alex Li and Matt Johnson – District courts commonly stay patent litigation cases pending inter parties review (IPR) that assesses the validity of the patents-in-suit before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Such stay may be lifted or extended at...
by Gasper LaRosa | Oct 21, 2019 | Other News, Stay
By Gasper LaRosa and Stephanie M. Brooker What happens when patent claims are found unpatentable in inter partes review (“IPR”) and new claims are subsequently added to that patent through ex parte reexamination? The District Court for the Northern District of...
by John Marlott | Oct 1, 2019 | Stay
By John Marlott After SAS, does institution of an IPR make a district court more or less likely to stay a parallel litigation? Maybe, maybe not. In its April 2018 decision in SAS Institute v. Iancu, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the PTAB cannot take a selective,...
by Matthew Johnson | Aug 8, 2019 | Stay
By Sue Gerber and Matt Johnson Reexamination can be stayed pending IPR proceedings for good cause shown. The PTAB recently found good cause for a stay had been established when the reexamination proceedings and IPR proceedings had only a single claim in common, but...
by Matthew Johnson | Jun 20, 2019 | Stay
By Jen Bachorik and Matt Johnson The United States District Court for the Central District of California recently denied Defendant Adobe Systems Inc.’s motion to stay litigation pending resolution of parallel inter partes review (“IPR”) proceedings before the PTAB...
by Matthew Johnson | Dec 26, 2018 | PTAB News, Stay
By Tom Ritchie and Matt Johnson In Microsoft Corp. v. Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe, the PTAB refused to stay ten IPRs filed by Microsoft while Patent Owner St. Regis appeals a Federal Circuit decision that tribal sovereign immunity cannot be asserted in an IPR proceeding....
