PTAB Denies Stay Pending Sovereign Immunity Cert Petition
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....
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...