On Tuesday, November 13th, the PTAB Bar Association held its
inaugural Thought Leader Summit.
The Summit featured two sessions on recent developments in the
patent litigation field, as well as a keynote address from Acting
Deputy Chief Administrative Patent Judge Jacqueline Wright
Bonilla.
The Summit's first session was "Complex PTAB Issues
Seen from the PTAB Bench." It featured a panel of three
Administrative Patent Judges: Trevor Jefferson, Grace Obermann and
Robert Weinschenk. Practitioners Naveen Modi and Steven
Baughman, who moderated the panel, began by asking the judges how
the Supreme Court's holding in SAS Institute, Inc. v.
Iancu, 138 S. Ct. 1348 (2018) impacted PTAB litigations.
The judges felt the procedural issues following the case were
resolved, and expect post-SAS Decisions to Institute to be
more detailed. Judge Obermann felt the holding's impact
was moderate because the PTAB was prepared accordingly. Judge
Weinschenk thanked practitioners for
