Intervening Court Decisions May Prevent Denial of Review Under § 325(d)
By Kait Crowder and Dave Maiorana Under 35 U.S.C. § 325(d), the PTAB has discretion regarding whether to institute a covered business method review if the arguments presented in the petition are the same, or substantially the same, as those previously considered by...
BREAKING: Click-to-Call and One-Year Time Bar – Petition for Certiorari Incoming
By Doug Pearson As reported in a prior post, the Federal Circuit in Click-To-Call Tech. v. Ingenio, Inc., 2015-1242 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 16, 2018) (en banc) found in a divided 10-2 en banc decision that a voluntary dismissal without prejudice of a district court litigation...
Seeking District Court Assistance For An IPR Proceeding
By Marc Blackman Discovery is limited in inter partes review proceedings. As we previously discussed here and here, discovery is available only “in the interest of justice,” and requests for discovery frequently are denied. Yet, a party may be aware of information...
PTAB Flushes Airplane Lavatory Patent On On-Sale Bar
By Christian Platt, John Evans, and Kerry Barrett On October 23, 2018, the PTAB found unpatentable B/E Aerospace’s U.S. Design Patent No. D764,031 (“’031 patent”). C&D Zodiac, Inc. v. B/E Aerospace, Inc., PGR2017-00019, Paper 37 (PTAB Oct. 23, 2018). The ’031...
High Court to Tackle Whether Government Can Petition PTAB
By: Emily Tait UPDATE: Oral Argument was held in this case in February 2019. On October 26, 2018, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Return Mail, Inc. v. United States Postal Service, et al. (17-1594) to address whether the U.S. government is a “person” who may...