Record Petition Filings Projected for FY 2017 – Institution Rate Continues Slide
By Matt Johnson The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has released AIA trial filing and disposition numbers for July 2017. Filings remain near the 150 mark, with 138 total trials being requested in July, 135 of those being requests for Inter Partes Review. This is down...
PTAB Denies Untimely Request to Stay Pending Reexaminations
By Geoffrey Gavin In Juniper Networks, Inc. v. Chrimar Systems, Inc., IPR2016-01389, Paper 62 (PTAB Sept. 12, 2017), the PTAB denied Petitioner’s request to stay two reexaminations of patents that were also the subject of pending IPR proceedings. In a pair of IPR...
Secondary Considerations Win Again
By Allie Terry and Dave Maiorana As we have previously discussed (on February 1, March 1, March 30, and May 19), reliance on secondary considerations of non-obviousness has been hit or miss for patent owners trying to convince PTAB panels that the secondary...
In Precedential Decision, Board Says Packard, Not Nautilus, Governs Indefiniteness During Pre-Issuance Examination
By Christian Damon and John Marlott In a prior post we compared the different standards for claim indefiniteness applied by courts in litigation and by the USPTO during pre-issuance and post-issuance proceedings. Another of our previous posts profiled a real-world...
Federal Circuit Rules in Favor of Public Interest Group Standing at PTAB
By Stephanie Brooker and Carl Kukkonen In Personal Audio, LLC. v. Electronic Frontier Foundation, No. 2016-1123 (Fed. Cir. Aug. 7, 2017), the Federal Circuit reviewed a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) decision invalidating claims of U.S. Patent No. 8,112,504...