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Category: Post-Grant Proceedings
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After Multiple CBM Petitions, Motorola Invalidates Software Patent By Joseph Herndon — On March 21, 2016, the USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a final written decision in the Covered Business Method (CBM) patent review between Motorola Mobility, LLC and Intellectual Ventures I, LLC, in which challenged claims were found to be unpatentable…
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By Andrew Williams — On March 4, the Supreme Court announced that the Cuozzo Speed Technologies, LLC v. Lee appeal would be argued on April 25, 2016 (the last week of oral hearings for the October Term 2015). As we reported previously, the Supreme Court granted certiorari in this case to address two questions: 1. …
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By Joseph Herndon — On March 1, 2016, the Federal Circuit issued an opinion in a number of related appeals between Blue Calypso, LLC and Groupon, Inc. These related appeals arise from five Covered Business Method (CBM) reviews of five patents owned by Blue Calypso (U.S. Patent Nos. 7,664,516; 8,155,679; 8,457,670; 8,438,055; and 8,452,640). The…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — The phylogenetic Order Diptera comprises the "true" flies (defined as having a single pair of wings arising from the thorax) and is first found in the fossil record in the Middle Triassic (~245 million years ago). It is one of the most evolutionarily successful, comprising 120,000 known species and thought…
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By Donald Zuhn — After reflecting upon the events of the past twelve months, Patent Docs presents its eighth annual list oftop patent stories. For 2014, we identified eighteen stories that were covered on Patent Docs last year that we believe had (or are likely to have) the greatest impact on patent practitioners and applicants. …
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By Andrew Williams — Last week, on September 2, 2014, Accord Healthcare, Inc. ("Accord") filed what appears to be the second-ever Post-Grant Review ("PGR") (see Petition). This PGR was for U.S. Patent No. 8,598,219 ("the '219 Patent"), which is jointly assigned to Helsinn Healthcare S.A. and Roche Palo Alto, LLC (collectively "Helsinn"). As a reminder, PGRs…
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By Andrew Williams — Late last month, while many of us were getting ready to attend the BIO International Convention in San Diego, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board ("Board") issued four related inter partes review opinions, marking what many have called the first set of opinions related to the Pharmaceutical industry. These cases, which…
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By Andrew Williams — Today, March 16, 2014, marks the eighteen-month anniversary of the inter partes review ("IPR") system of challenging issued patents at the Patent Office. We thought that this would be an appropriate time to look back at the last year and a half and reflect on the system thus far. In that…
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A Little Reminder to the PTO about Due Process and the Importance of Objective Evidence of Non-Obviousness By Alison Baldwin — In its decision on September 24th, the Federal Circuit reminded the Patent Office that the principles of due process are still alive and kicking and cannot be ignored by the Patent Office's judiciary. The…
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