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America Invents Act › Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

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The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act is a United States federal statute enacted in 2011 aimed at simplifying the U.S. patent system and allowing inventions to be brough to market sooner. The AIA makes significant changes to the patent system, including changing from a first-to-invent scheme to a first-to-file scheme, eliminating interference proceedings and developing post-grant opposition. less -

PTAB Designates as Precedential 2014 Decision Governing Communications with Counsel During Deposition

Williams Mullen on 7/15/2019

On July 10, 2019, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board designated as precedential Focal Therapeutics, Inc. v. Senorx, Inc., IPR2014-00116, Paper 19 (PTAB, July 21, 2014), which concerned the rules governing depositions in the...more

4 Things You Must Know about AIA Trial Depositions

Esquire Deposition Solutions, LLC on 7/11/2018

After the America Invents Act (AIA) passed with a vote of 304-177 in June 2011, inventors seeking patents had to be the first to file to lay claim to their innovations. As the first major shift in patent law since 1952,...more

The Cases that Never Were: Nullified Litigation and the One-Year Bar

McDermott Will & Emery on 6/11/2018

Addressing whether either of two previously filed district court actions precluded institution of an inter partes review (IPR) proceeding under the one-year time bar of 35 USC § 315(b), the Patent Trial and Appeal Board...more

Skeptical St. Regis Mohawk Tribe Requests Discovery Regarding Panel Selection Circumstances

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP on 1/4/2018

The creation of adversarial procedures before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (post-grant review, inter partes review, and covered business methods review) has raised a number of...more

Expanded Federal Circuit Jurisdiction: Classifying Compulsory Counterclaims

McDermott Will & Emery on 12/29/2016

Addressing jurisdictional issues under the America Invents Act (AIA), the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit denied a petition for a writ of mandamus challenging a district court order compelling a petitioner to...more

Intellectual Property Newsletter -August 2016

A&O Shearman on 8/22/2016

Shearman & Sterling’s IP litigation team has published its quarterly newsletter. The newsletter covers a number of current IP topics, including a look at the America Invents Act, five years in; the U.S. International Trade...more

Intellectual Property Law - December 2015

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 12/23/2015

Down the Rabbit Hole: Trends in Software Patent Court Decisions Post-Alice - Why it matters: In Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank, the U.S. Supreme Court held that claims for a computer-based software method for reducing...more

Patent Pending: The Outlook for Patent Legislation in the 114th Congress

King & Spalding on 7/14/2015

The field of patent law is in a state of flux. Just four years after the America Invents Act (“AIA”) went into effect, Congress is taking up the issue once again, this time seeking to pass legislation to curb abusive patent...more

Rebalancing Your IP Portfolio

Troutman Pepper on 6/23/2015

Financial advisors often advise their clients to maintain a balanced investment portfolio. Occasionally these advisors recommend rebalancing the investments within a portfolio to account for changes in market conditions. ...more

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