The PTAB Must Address All Grounds, Even After Final Written Decision
By Kenny Luchesi Amazon.com, Inc. and Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. (“Amazon”) filed a petition for inter partes review challenging the validity of AC Technologies S.A.’s (“AC”) U.S. Patent No. 7,904,680. See IPR2015-01802. Amazon asserted three grounds of...
Cert Petition Seeks Review of Time-Bar Trigger for Voluntarily Dismissed Complaints
By Greg Castanias and Doug Pearson On January 11, 2019, Dex Media filed a Petition for Writ of Certiorari seeking review of the Federal Circuit’s decision in Click-To-Call Tech. v. Ingenio, Inc., 899 F.3d 1321 (Fed. Cir. 2018) (en banc in relevant part). ...
Jones Day Intellectual Property Practice Selected as 2018 Law360 Practice Group of the Year
Jones Day was recognized by the legal publication Law360 for its 2018 "Practice Groups of the Year" awards in the Intellectual Property and Product Liability categories. Now in their ninth year, the awards "honor the law firms behind the litigation wins and major...
Battling Boredom While Building Virtual Cities: PTAB Denies Claims as Patent-Ineligible
By Doug Clark and Carl Kukkonen Video game companies occasionally will take to the PTAB, seeking to invalidate each other’s patents. Mobile game developer Supercell Oy (petitioner) filed a Post Grant Review (“PGR) after learning that the USPTO issued U.S. Pat. No....
Patent Owner Sanctioned For Ex Parte Communications
By Dave Maiorana Under 37 C.F.R. § 42.5(d), communications with a Board member regarding a specific proceeding are not permitted “unless both parties have an opportunity to be involved in the communication.” This prohibition, however, does not extend to “referring to...