VLSI Claims Deemed Unpatentable
By Adam J. Cook,* Christian Roberts, and Matt Johnson - On May 12, 2023, the Intel v. VLSI chronicle continued as the PTAB issued a final written decision holding that all of the challenged claims of VLSI’s U.S. Patent No. 7,725,759 (“the ’759 patent”) were...
PTAB Panel Excuses Late Filings
By Levent Herguner, Derek Walker,* and Matt Johnson - On May 10, 2023, a PTAB Panel excused the late filings of the Patent Owner and allowed over thirty exhibits and a Corrected Patent Owner Response (“CPOR”) to be submitted into the record in Samsung Electronics Co.,...
APJ Stock Ownership Insufficient To Vacate
By Jack Graves and Matt Johnson - On May 16, 2023, the Federal Circuit denied a petition for a writ of mandamus to direct the Board to vacate an institution decision based on stock ownership of an administrative patent judges (“APJ”) in In re Centripetal Networks,...
PTAB Issues Back-to-Back Fintiv Denials After Dry Spell
By Sue Gerber and Matt Johnson - The PTAB recently issued back-to-back Fintiv denials. The first denial issued on May 4, 2023. Read here about Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. v. California Institute of Tech., No. IPR2023-00130, Paper 10 (P.T.A.B. May 4, 2023). And the...
Discretionary Denial Despite Stipulation
By Hannah Mehrle and Matt Johnson - The Board exercised discretion under § 314 to deny inter partes review in view of co-pending district court litigation. In the Institution Decision, the Board evaluated the Fintiv factors in light of the USPTO Director’s June 2022...