GRÜNENTHAL GMBH v. ANTECIP BIOVENTURES II LLC, PGR2019-00026, -00027, 00028 (PTAB, July 28, 2020) -
The PTAB issued decisions in a trio of post-grant reviews. One of the defenses put forward by the Patent Owner was that...more
On May 27, 2020, the Federal Register published proposed rule changes to trial procedures before the PTAB. The rule changes address and codify the following...more
Ciena Corp. v. Oyster Optics, LLC, Appeal No. 2019-2117 (Fed. Cir., May 5, 2020). -
On January 28, 2020, the Federal Circuit issued a non-precedential order that denied IPR petitioner Ciena’s motion to have a judgment...more
Argentum Pharmaceuticals LLC v. Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corp., Appeal No. 2018-2273 (Fed. Cir., April 23, 2020).
Argentum and other petitioners filed IPRs against Novartis’ patent related to methods of treating...more
5/1/2020
/ Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) ,
Article III ,
Injury-in-Fact ,
Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding ,
Life Sciences ,
Novartis ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patent Trial and Appeal Board ,
Patents ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Standing
Thryv, Inc. v. Click-To Call Technologies, LP, et al., 590 U.S. ___, Case No. 18-916 (slip op., April 20, 2020) -
John P. Isacson IPR petitioner Thryv challenged patent owner Click-To-Call’s patent and several claims were...more
Apple Inc. v. California Institute of Technology, Appeal Nos. 2019-1580, -1581 (Fed. Cir., March 5, 2020).
In January of this year, a jury awarded the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) $837,801,178 for Apple’s...more
Image Processing Technologies LLC v. Samsung Electronics Co., LTD. et al., Appeal Nos. 2018-2156, 2019-1408, 2019-1485 (Fed. Cir. March 2, 2020).
The Federal Circuit vacated and remanded the PTAB’s decisions against Image...more
3/4/2020
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Appointments Clause ,
Constitutional Challenges ,
Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding ,
Judicial Appointments ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patent Trial and Appeal Board ,
Patents ,
Remand ,
Samsung ,
Stays ,
USPTO ,
Vacated
Koninklijke Philips N.V. v. Google LLC et al., Appeal No. 2019-1177 (Fed. Cir., January 30, 2020).
Google filed an IPR against Philips’ patent relating to a method of forming a media presentation on a client device from...more
Wasica Finance GmbH et al. v. Schrader Int’l, Inc. et al., C.A. 13-1353-LPS (D. Del. January 14, 2020) (publicly available on January 21, 2020)....more
Biodelivery Sciences Int’l, Inc. v. Aquestive Therapeutics, Inc., Appeal Nos. 2019-1643, -1644, -1645 (Fed. Cir., January 13, 2020) -
On August 29, 2019, we reported on the Biodelivery decision, where the PTAB received on...more
On January 13, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari in the following cases...more
1/14/2020
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Computer-Related Inventions ,
Denial of Certiorari ,
Diagnostic Method ,
Hewlett-Packard ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patent-Eligible Subject Matter ,
Patents ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Pharmaceutical Patents ,
Post-Grant Review ,
SCOTUS ,
Section 101
Fox Factory, Inc. v. SRAM, LLC, Appeal Nos. 2018-2024, -2025 (Fed. Cir. December 18, 2019).
SRAM owned two patents pertaining to bicycle chainrings, which are toothed disks that engage bicycle chains. Fox filed inter...more
Customedia Tech., LLC v. Dish Network Corp.., Appeal Nos. 2018-2239, -2240, -2310, 2019-1000, -1001, -1002, -1027 and -1029 (Fed. Cir., Nov. 1, 2019).
The day after the Federal Circuit issued its decision in Arthrex, Inc....more
Biodelivery Sciences Int’l, Inc. v. Aquestive Therapeutics, Appeal Nos. 2019-1643, -1644, -1645 (Fed. Cir. August 29, 2019) -
On motion, the Federal Circuit dismissed the second appeals in three IPRs pertaining to oral...more
GoPro, Inc. v. 360Heros, Inc., IPR2018-01754 (Precedential Opinion Panel, August 23, 2019) -
Section 315(b) of Title 35 prohibits institution of an IPR where the petition is filed more than one year after service of a...more
Celgene Corp. v. Peter, Appeal Nos. 2018-1167, -1168, -1169 (Fed. Cir. July 30, 2019) -
Celgene owned two patents that pertained to methods of safely distributing potentially hazardous drugs. The patents were challenged...more
8/1/2019
/ Administrative Proceedings ,
America Invents Act ,
Appeals ,
Constitutional Challenges ,
Fifth Amendment ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patents ,
Prior Art ,
Retroactive Application
Cited Statutory Sections: 101 and 103 -
This appeal concerned 10 inter partes reviews (IPRs) filed by petitioners Neptune Generics, Fresenius Kabi USA and Mylan Laboratories against all of the claims of U.S. Patent No....more
The Federal Circuit just issued a decision that confirms its stance on Article III standing for appeals from inter partes reviews (IPRs), making it tougher for unsuccessful IPR petitioners to obtain judicial review of U.S....more
2/8/2019
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Article III ,
Biosimilars ,
Bristol-Myers Squibb ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Inter Partes Review (IPR) Proceeding ,
Momenta ,
Patent Infringement ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patents ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Pharmaceutical Patents ,
Standing ,
USPTO
The Federal Circuit recently issued a pair of decisions concerning the Gilead doctrine, which allowed later-issuing patents to be obviousness-type double patenting (ODP) references against earlier-issuing patents....more
12/11/2018
/ Double Patent ,
Gilead Sciences ,
Intellectual Property Protection ,
Obviousness ,
Patent Applications ,
Patent Expiration ,
Patent Litigation ,
Patent Term Adjustment ,
Patent Term Extensions ,
Patents ,
Pharmaceutical Industry ,
Pharmaceutical Patents