Today, the House Judiciary Committee conducted a hearing entitled "The Patent Trial and Appeal Board and the Appointments Clause: Implications of Recent Court Decisions."

On Monday, November 27th, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in both the Oil States and SAS Institute appeals.

Webinars This Week on Post-Grant Patent Practice

To date, in order to submit an amicus brief in a PTAB case selected for Precedential Opinion Panel (POP) consideration, an interested party would either look to an Order from the Board in a subject case inviting such.

The Patent Trial & Appeal Board (PTAB) has designated the following decisions, which involve 35 U.S.C. § 315(b), as informative.

Last Friday, the Chief Judge of the Patent Trial & Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a general order directed to the growing number of Arthrex remands, now totaling over 100 cases.

Earlier this year the Patent Trial & Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted trial in Sling TV, L.L.C. et al. v. Realtime Adaptive Streaming, LLC, IPR2018-01331, Paper 9 (PTAB January 31, 2019).

Just over half of all final written decisions for petitions challenging Orange Book-listed patents find all claims patentable.

The PTAB has created and is hiring for a new Judicial Law Clerk Program. The PTAB modeled this program off the judicial law clerk program used in the federal courts.

As discussed last week, a remand to the Patent Trial & Appeal Board (PTAB) may be a short-lived victory for Patent Owners.

In view of the decision from the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Aqua Products, Inc. v. Matal, 872 F.3d 1290 (Fed. Cir. 2017), regarding motion to amend practice...

Longest Running PTAB Program in NYC 9/11/19

Late last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee announced the formation of an Intellectual Property (IP) Subcommittee.

A few virtual CLE programs on the horizon, including AIPLA's PTAB Bench & Bar Conference, and the inaugural IPWatchdog Con!

Kat Gregor, tax partner and co-founder of the tax controversy group, was recently appointed to Law360's 2020 Tax Editorial Advisory Board.

In the wake of the IRS' Ninth Circuit victory in Altera Corporation v. Commissioner, 926 F.3d 1061 (9th Circuit 2019), the IRS' Large Business and International (LB&I) Division

On January 17, 2020, a federal district court in Washington ordered Microsoft Corporation ("Microsoft") to produce many documents to the Internal Revenue Service.

On March 13, 2018, the IRS announced its first substantive Large Business and International Division ("LB&I") compliance campaigns focused on partnerships and their partners.

After the Supreme Court declined to review the Ninth Circuit's decision in Altera Corporation v. Commissioner, 926 F.3d 1061 (9th Cir. 2019) (cert denied — S. Ct. — (June 22, 2020))...

In Notice 2020-75, the Treasury/IRS announced that proposed regulations will be issued to provide certainty that income tax payments made by partnerships and S corporations...