Under 35 U.S.C. § 311(b), a Petitioner may challenge the validity of an issued patent in an IPR proceeding “only on the basis of prior art consisting of patents or printed publications.” Public accessibility has been held to...more
Yesterday, the Precedential Opinion Panel (POP) designated two PTAB decisions as precedential and one as informative. The decisions relate to the Board’s discretion in instituting trial under 35 U.S.C. § 314 where the...more
In a widely-anticipated decision, the U.S. Supreme Court held yesterday that the America Invents Act (AIA) did not change the scope of the on-sale bar to patentability. The unanimous decision, authored by Justice Thomas, held...more
Kilpatrick Townsend attorneys Justin Krieger and Nicki Kennedy recently spoke at the Kilpatrick Townsend Intellectual Property Seminars on the topic of “Helsinn v. Teva: The Status of Secret Prior Art and the On-Sale...more
In its majority opinion rendered June 10, 2016 in SAS Institute, Inc., v. ComplementSoft, LLC, __ F. 3d __ (Fed. Cir. 2016), the Federal Circuit upheld the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s construction of claim terms and...more