Overturning prior PTAB precedent, the Federal Circuit has now held that post-facto business mergers that create a new real-party-in-interest (“RPI”) trigger the one-year bar date for filing IPR petitions on patents asserted...more
6/28/2019
/ § 315(b) ,
Appeals ,
Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding ,
Merger Agreements ,
Mergers ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patent Trial and Appeal Board ,
Patents ,
Real Party in Interest ,
Reversal ,
Time-Barred Claims
In Depomed, Inc. v. Purdue Pharma LP et al., 3-13-cv-00571 (NJD November 4, 2016, Mem. Op. Dkt. 238) (Bongiovanni, MJ), the Court analyzed and applied recent Federal Circuit decisions limiting the scope of post-IPR estoppel...more
In litigation, it is not uncommon for depositions to be taken outside the United States, particularly when a given witness resides outside the United States and cannot or does not wish to travel to the United States. In IPR...more
As the automotive industry rebounds from its recessionary levels to an all time record level of spending on vehicles and healthy profitability, one of the key drivers of the increased vehicles sales has been increased...more
10/9/2015
/ Automotive Industry ,
Connected Cars ,
Cross-Border ,
Discovery ,
Driverless Cars ,
Electric Vehicles ,
Electronics ,
Fuel Standards ,
Innovation ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
International Trade Commission (ITC) ,
OEM ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patents ,
Popular ,
Software ,
Suppliers ,
Supply Chain
Oral hearings before the PTAB are the time to shine, to convince the judges why your position is right, why your opponent’s position is wrong, and to address questions head-on and reassure the judges regarding any real or...more