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Category: Patent Trial and Appeal Board
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By Nicole Grimm, George "Trey" Lyons, III, and Brett Scott — On January 3, 2019, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a Final Written Decision in Insys Development Co., Inc. v. GW Pharma Ltd. (IPR2017-00503), a landmark inter partes review (IPR) decision involving a cannabis patent. Although the PTAB…
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By Donald Zuhn –- After reflecting upon the events of the past twelve months, Patent Docs presents its 12th annual list of top patent stories. For 2018, we identified fifteen stories that were covered on Patent Docs last year that we believe had (or are likely to have) a significant impact on patent practitioners and…
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By Donald Zuhn –- After reflecting upon the events of the past twelve months, Patent Docs presents its 12th annual list of top patent stories. For 2018, we identified fifteen stories that were covered on Patent Docs last year that we believe had (or are likely to have) a significant impact on patent practitioners and…
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By David Boundy* — Last week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Patent Trial and Appeal Board issued a request for briefing in Proppant Express Investments, LLC v. Oren Technologies, LLC, IPR2018-00914, paper no. 24 (PTAB Dec. 3, 2018) (see Revised Order). Proppant initiates a rulemaking to formulate new rules on joinder of parties and claims in PTAB…
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By Josh Rich — In AIA post-grant proceedings — specifically, Post-Grant Review ("PGR"), Inter Partes Review ("IPR"), and Covered Business Method ("CBM") review — the patentee has the right to seek to amend the claims rather than fight over the issued claims. However, in 90% of the cases in which a motion to amend has…
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By Josh Rich — On Friday, October 26, 2018, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in Return Mail, Inc. v. U.S. Postal Service, in order to answer the question whether the government can bring post-grant review proceedings under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, or AIA. Specifically, the Supreme Court agreed to review whether the government is…
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PTAB Affirms Patent Eligibility of Claims for Using Dwell Time to Rank Search Results By James Korenchan — In a decision issued last month, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office reversed the final rejection of all pending claims in U.S. Application No. 12/814,020, for which the real party…
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By Josh Rich — Under a new PTO administrative rule published today, the PTAB will apply the same claim construction standards in IPRs, PGRs, and CBMs filed on November 13, 2018 or later as would apply in litigation. 83 Fed. Reg. 51340 (Oct. 11, 2018). The PTAB will also consider claim construction decisions from litigation…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — Patent law has traditionally been considered to be fraught with traps for the unwary, which in practice just means that it is unwise to assume anything (see Carl S. Koening, "Clarifying Patent Terminology and Patent Concepts – An Introduction to Some Basic Concepts and Doctrine," 15 Cath. U. L. Rev.…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — On August 8th, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued revisions to its Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Guide (see "Trial Practice Guide Update"), first promulgated in 2012 as part of the Office's implementation of inter partes review (IPR), post-grant review (PGR), and covered business methods review (CBM) proceedings…
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