In In Re: IPR Licensing, Inc., Appeal Nos. IPR2014-00525, IPR2015-00074 (Fed. Cir. Nov. 22, 2019),...

In Koninklijke Philips N.V. v. Google LLC, Case No. 2019-1177 (Fed. Cir. January 30, 2020), the Federal Circuit determined that the Board erred in instituting inter partes review...

If a Petitioner does not timely file the required petition fee, an IPR will not be instituted.

Addressing the PTAB Bar Association Conference in its opening session, newly appointed Chief Judge Scott Boalick explained that his goal ...

Earlier this year, the Federal Circuit held "that statements made by a patent owner during an IPR proceeding, whether before or after an institution decision, can be considered for claim construction...

PTAB rules prohibit raising new arguments in a reply brief, but it can be difficult to distinguish between an improper reply argument and a proper rebuttal.

Last summer, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office decision, rejecting claims in the In re Cellect, LLC, case due to the doctrine of obviousness...

The Federal Circuit vacated and remanded the PTAB's decision that a video demonstration and slides distributed by Petitioner Medtronic at three industry meetings and conferences were not publicly accessible and, thus, were not "printed publications."

The PTAB Bar Association's Annual Conference in March included a panel of Administrative Patent Judges who offered commentary on best practices in ex parte appeals from original examination and reexaminations.

The Patent Office proposed and invited comments on these changes in a May 2018 notice in the Federal Register

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board recently presented an update on the "Fast-Track Appeals Pilot Program" the Patent Office initiated in July 2020

PatentNext Summary: Following the August 2022 Federal Circuit decision in Thaler v. Vidal, 43 F.4th 1207 (Fed. Cir. 2022), in which the court ruled that artificial intelligence (AI) could not be an inventor by itself, the USPTO has now requested comments regarding AI and inventorship.

I have been monitoring patent application filing around the world that list "DABUS (the "Device for the Autonomous Bootingstraiming of Unified Sentience") as the sole inventor.

In Managing Intellectual Property Magazine's ‘Five minutes with' feature, Marshall Gerstein Managing Partner Jeff Sharp shares lessons that have shaped his career and the firm's success...

In IPR 2016-00039, Costco challenged claims 1, 12 and 14 of USPN 7,228,588 owned by Bosch and drawn to beam (non-yoked) windshield wipers with spoilers to keep the wipers in contact with...

The Federal Circuit recently issued a decision in In re Marco Guldenaar Holding B.V., ruling the claims at issue were directed to the abstract idea

This blog has previously reported on several PTAB and Federal Circuit decisions concerning what does and does not qualify as prior art:

In affirming a PTAB IPR decision canceling claims for obviousness, the Federal Circuit concluded that the PTAB's reliance on references not included in the original petition did not violate due process...

In Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson ("Ericsson") v TCL Corporation, ( "TCL"), 2017-2381, -2385 (Fed. Cir. Nov. 7, 2019)

PTABWatch Takeaway: Sovereign immunity is not available to dismiss an IPR challenge where the Patent Owner has filed an infringement action against the Petitioner.