Director Review at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) remains a hot topic in patent law. The Director first established an interim process for Director Review in the wake of the Supreme Court’s 2021 decision in United...more
7/31/2024
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On April 16, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) regarding Director Review of Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) decisions....more
2022 was a milestone year for the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. In April, Kathi Vidal began her tenure as Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office with an early focus on promoting increased efficiency at the...more
In a year of extraordinary change, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) rose to the challenge - Given the challenges of 2020 – a global pandemic, a deep economic recession, and a turbulent presidential election, among...more
3/8/2021
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The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) remains the forum of choice for challenging the validity of patent claims. However, it is notable that a comparison of 2019 and 2018 statistics reveals about a 30 percent decline in...more
2016 marked the fourth anniversary of the America Invents Act (AIA). The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) was once again the forum of choice for challenging patentability of claims, surpassing the Eastern District of...more
Despite another year of attempts to amend in IPR and CBM, success is still rare. But is a change coming?
In the summer of 2015, the PTAB issued its final written decision in REG Synthetic Fuels LLC v. Neste Oil OYJ,...more
When considering an inter partes review in conjunction with a pending patent infringement suit, defendants must time the filing of their petition to beat the one-year-from-service bar imposed by 35 U.S.C. § 315(b). ...more
As a follow-up to our Alert yesterday, the Board also designated their decision in LG Electronics, Inc. v. Mondis Tech Ltd., IPR2015-00937, Paper 8 (PTAB September 17, 2015) as precedential, a decision explaining the one-year...more