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...
Typical Supplier/Co-Defendant Is Not An RPI Or Privy
By Kenny Luchesi - In a recently published decision, the PTAB held that Samsung’s petition for inter partes review of a patent owned by The SEVEN Networks LLC was not time-barred under § 315(b). Samsung filed its petition less than one year after being served...
Motion to Amend Denied for Failure to Meet 42.121 Requirements
By Levent Herguner and Matt Johnson - On November 26, 2018, the PTAB entered its Final Written Decision in Intel Corp. v. Alacritech, Inc., Case IPR2017-01391, denying Patent Owner Alacritech, Inc.’s Motion to Amend in the inter partes review of certain claims of...
Click-to-Call Cert Petition – Second Extension of Time Granted
By Doug Pearson - As reported in a prior post, DexMedia, Inc. previously filed an Application for Extension of Time to File a Petition for a Writ of Certiorari requesting an extension of 30 days in which to file a cert petition challenging the Federal...