Sen. Hatch Introduces Hatch-Waxman Integrity Act
Sen. Orrin Hatch has introduced a bill that would augment the Hatch-Waxman Act, limiting challengers ability to proceed with patent challenges both in court and at the PTAB. Following is the introduction of the "Hatch-Waxman Integrity Act of 2018." The full text of...
Rule 36 Judgment May Support Finding of Collateral Estoppel
By Marc Blackman - The Federal Circuit recently affirmed final written decisions in two inter partes reviews by holding that the patent owner was collaterally estopped from relitigating the threshold issue of whether a prior art reference was a printed...
PTAB Bar Association Annual Conference Agenda Set
The 2019 PTAB Bar Association Annual Conference will take place March 14 – 15, 2019, at the Ritz-Carlton in Washington, D.C. Pre-conference sessions will be offered March 13. The conference will bring together practitioners, in-house counsel, and members of the bench...
PTAB Webinar Addresses Hearsay and Authentication Issues
By Jihong Lou, Levent Herguner, Alex Li, and Matt Johnson - On December 6, 2018, the PTAB hosted a Boardside Chat webinar on hearsay and authentication. The Administrative Patent Judges presenting the webinar were Michael Zecher, Tom Giannetti, and Grace Obermann.The...
PTAB October Statistics
By Matt Johnson - The PTAB's October statistics indicate a quiet first month of FY 2019, with 115 petitions for IPR, 5 PGR petitions, and 2 CBM petitions being filed in October. That filing rate would extrapolate to 1464 total filings for the year, compared with...