Technology Sector, Appeals, Patent Trial and Appeal Board

You Snooze, You Lose: Federal Circuit Emphasized Once Again the Importance of Preserving Issues for Appellate Review

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 4/10/2025

AliveCor, Inc. v. Apple, Inc., No. 23-1512 (Fed. Cir. 2025) – On March 7, 2025, the Federal Circuit affirmed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s inter partes review (“IPR”) decisions invalidating all claims of three AliveCor...more

PTAB Overturns a Subject Matter Eligibility Rejection of Claims Directed to a Quantum-Computing Method

Foley Hoag LLP on 3/7/2025

On February 13, 2025, Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) overturned a patent eligibility rejection of claims directed to a method of performing a computation using a quantum...more

Framing Your Pitch: A Lesson from the TTI v. IBG Cases

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP on 5/7/2019

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit recently issued three interesting, related opinions interpreting and applying the “technological invention” exception to Covered Business Method Review (“CBM Review”). These...more

Latest Federal Court Cases - January 2019 #2

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC on 1/15/2019

PATENT CASE OF THE WEEK - WesternGeco LLC v. Ion Geophysical Corp., Appeal Nos. 2013-1527, 2014-1121, -1526, -1528 (Fed. Cir. Jan. 11, 2019) - In the continuing saga between WesternGeco and ION Geophysical, a Federal...more

Judge Koeltl Agrees that “Access” to Confidential Information is Enough to Trigger a Prosecution Bar

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP on 12/12/2017

On November 20, 2017, District Judge John G. Koeltl (S.D.N.Y.) approved a prosecution bar for “any individual who gains access” to confidential material. In addition, Judge Koeltl determined that post-issuance proceedings,...more

Is Inter Partes Review Set for Supreme Court Review?

K&L Gates LLP on 10/19/2015

In re Cuozzo Speed Tech., LLC presented the Federal Circuit with its first opportunity to address important, open questions about how the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) handles its relatively new Inter Partes Review...more