Ex Parte Reexamination Barred Based on Earlier IPR
By Dhohyung Kim and Josh Nightingale - On November 16, 2022, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“PTO”) vacated a reexamination proceeding because the patent challenger relied on unpatentability grounds that reasonably could have been raised in an earlier...
Limited Stipulation Results In Fintiv Denial
By Ashvi Patel and Matt Johnson - Patent Owner, IP Bridge, filed a patent infringement suit against Petitioner, Ericsson, for infringement of seven of its patents directed at radio communication between a base station and a mobile station and related apparatuses and...
Single-Patent Sotera Stipulation Sufficient
By Simon Maxell* and Matt Johnson - On March 3, 2021, Via Transportation, Inc. (Plaintiff/Patent Owner) filed an infringement suit against RideCo Inc. (Defendant/Petitioner) in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas for infringement of U.S. Patent...
PTAB Declines To Consider Substance Of RPI Complaint
By David Linden and Dave Maiorana - On May 27, 2022, Unified Patents, LLC (“Unified”) filed a Petition requesting inter partes review (“IPR”) of claims 1-3 and 5-25 of U.S. Patent No. 7,321,777 (“the ’777 Patent”), assigned to Speir Technologies Ltd. (“Speir”). The...
Door Closed On Petitioner Who Failed To Prove Analogous Art
By Matt Modderman,* Robby Breetz, and Matt Johnson – A PTAB panel recently denied IPR institution where one of the asserted prior art references was non-analogous and thus the POSITA would not have made the proposed § 103 combination. The Chamberlain Group, LLC v....