Domestic Patent Reference Entitled to Foreign Priority Date
By Eric Jjemba,* Evan Jones, and Matt Johnson - On June 1, 2022, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board issued a Final Written Decision finding unpatentable three claims of AutoStore Technology AS’s (“AutoStore’s”) U.S. Patent No. 10,294,025 (“the ’025 patent”), while...
Interim Fintiv Guidance Discussed in PTAB Boardside Chat
By Victoria Kline* and Josh Nightingale - During the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) Boardside Chat on July 7, 2022, discussion focused on Director Katherine Vidal’s interim guidance on discretionary denials under the Board’s precedential Apple v. Fintiv...
Interim Procedure for Discretionary Denials Established
By David Linden and Dave Maiorana - On June 21, USPTO Director Kathi Vidal issued a memorandum concerning the PTAB’s practice of determining whether to institute an AIA post-grant proceeding in view of the Fintiv factors. The memorandum is in part a result of...
Patent Owner Ordered To Produce Infringement Contentions
By Connor Scholes,* Evan Jones, and Matt Johnson - On May 3, 2022, a panel of three PTAB administrative patent judges granted a motion for additional discovery in TCL Industries Holdings Co., Ltd. v. Parkervision, Inc., IPR2021-00985, (PTAB 2022), in which the PTAB...
Federal Circuit Approves Interim-Director Director Reviews
By Kaylee Rabatin and Matt Johnson - The Federal Circuit’s decision on May 27, 2022 in Arthrex Inc. v. Smith & Nephew Inc. et al., set forth that Patent Commissioner, Drew Hirshfeld, was within the bounds of the U.S. Supreme Court’s United States v. Arthrex ruling...