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USPTO Tightens Limits on AAPA Use in IPRs Following Qualcomm Precedent

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A recent memo from the acting director of the US Patent and Trademark Office directs the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) to reject inter partes review (IPR) petitions that use “applicant admitted prior art (AAPA), expert...more

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PTAB/USPTO Update - November 2022

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USPTO News - ..On October 19, 2022 the USPTO issued a report titled “Where are U.S. women patentees? Assessing three decades of growth” examining trends in women’s patenting in the U.S. from 1990-2019. ..Director...more

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Precedential Opinion Panel Clarifies Reasonable Likelihood Standard for Printed Publications at the Institution Stage of...

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On December 20, 2019, the Precedential Opinion Panel (POP) of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued its decision in IPR2018-01039, addressing “What is required for a petitioner to establish that an asserted...more

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PTAB Strategies and Insights - December 2019: PTAB Precedential Opinion Panel Clarifies the Standard for Establishing a Reference...

In a recent precedential decision, Hulu, LLC v. Sound View Innovations, LLC, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s Precedential Opinion Panel (POP) clarified the standard for establishing a reference as a “printed publication”...more

Knobbe Martens

Federal Circuit Review - November 2019

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The Appointments Clause: Ensuring That PTAB Decisions Are Subject to Constitutional Checks and Balances  In Arthrex, Inc. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc., Appeal No. 18-2251, the Federal Circuit ruled that, under the then-existing...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

PTAB Strategies and Insights - May 2018: “Addendum – Lack of Motivation to Combine – Avoid Declarant Weaknesses”

As follow up to last month’s article on lack of motivation to combine, another just released Board decision in IPR2016-00972 (Paper 18) again found for patent owner because the petition failed to provide a proper motivation...more

Jones Day

In an IPR, the Burden of Persuasion in an Obviousness Challenge Never Shifts to Patentee

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On March 3, 2017, in a final written decision in IPR2015-01838, the PTAB rejected an obviousness challenge brought by DuPont against a patent owned by Furanix Technologies B. V. directed to methods for preparing the known...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Cuozzo Speed Technologies, LLC v. Lee

The Supreme Court on Friday granted certiorari to review the Federal Circuit's decision that the U.S. Patent and Trademark's Patent Trial and Appeal Board was entitled to perform claim construction in inter partes review...more

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USPTO Implementation of AIA Does Not Violate Due Process: Federal Circuit Affirms the PTAB Panel Determining Institution of an IPR...

In Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. v. Covidien LP, a 2-1 panel split of the Federal Circuit held that neither the American Invents Act (“AIA”) nor the Constitution precludes the same panel of the Patent Trial & Appeal Board...more

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