On Wednesday, September 7, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board found that U.S. Patent Nos. 7,670,358 and 7,776,072 were not obvious, in part because certain cited prior art was not “disseminated or otherwise made available...more
On Tuesday, August 30, the Federal Circuit vacated the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s denial of a motion to amend. Veritas Techs. LLC v. Veeam Software Corp., Case No. 15-1894. The Federal Circuit found that “the Board was...more
On Monday, June 20, the Supreme Court issued a much anticipated decision upholding the PTAB's use of the Broadest Reasonable Interpretation standard for claim construction and confirming that the decision to institute is...more
The PTAB recently relied on the Federal Circuit’s decision in Enfish, LLC v. Microsoft Corp. in refusing to institute a Covered Business Method review of a patent for a system for managing personal electronic information....more
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board ("Board") recently granted a motion to amend. A successful motion to amend is rare; only six have been granted to date. The case is Shinn Fu Co. of America Inc. et al. v. The Tire Hanger...more
On March 15, 2016, the Federal Circuit reversed and remanded the PTAB's cancellation of claims 3 and 20 of Patent No. 6,948,021 directed to hot-swappable components in computer systems. See Dell Inc., v. Acceleron, LLC, No....more
The Federal Circuit recently reversed the PTAB’s cancellation of a patent directed to point-to-point communications in a dynamically addressed network. Sipnet EU S.R.O. has challenged U.S. Patent No. 6,108,704 held by...more
The non-invasive prenatal testing field has been an active area for patent challenges. Ariosa has challenged patents held by competitors Sequenom and Verinata. The latter is patent owner in two IPR proceedings challenging...more