As of 2020, post grant proceedings have been in use for eight years. Designed as an alternative to district court litigation post grant proceedings have offered litigants a faster and more cost effective forum for resolving...more
A recent decision by the International Trade Commission (ITC) to temporarily rescind a seizure and forfeiture order after the Court of International Trade (CIT) granted summary judgment of non-infringement for certain...more
6/22/2020
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Section 337
The decision by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board illustrates the dangers in waiting until the last day of the one-year statutory bar to file a petition, and the importance of double checking the filed documents on the PTAB’s...more
In Wasica Finance GmbH v. Schrader International, et al., the US District Court of Delaware found that a defendant’s failed inter partes review (IPR) challenge estopped it from later raising invalidity theories in the...more
The Court will consider whether the Patent Trial and Appeal Board must determine the unpatentability of all claims challenged by petitioners, or just those claims it has instituted review on, in inter partes review...more