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Eye on IPRs: November 2024: USPTO Director to Step Down, Did Fed. Circuit DISH Asks Full Fed. Cir. Panel to Reconsider Vacating...

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Every month, Erise’s patent attorneys review the latest inter partes review cases and news to bring you the stories that you should know about: USPTO Director Vidal to Step Down - On November 12, Under Secretary of...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Jager Pro, Inc. v. W-W Manufacturing Co. (Fed. Cir. 2023)

Although merely exemplifying the burden imposed on an appellant by the Federal Circuit's substantial evidence standard of review over decisions by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office regarding the facts underlying legal...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

PTAB Makes Significant Changes to Director Review Process

After considering comments from various stakeholders for nearly a year, on July 24, 2023, the USPTO issued the revised interim Director Review Process. Among other changes, the revised process now permits parties to request...more

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

The PTAB Review - May 2023

This issue begins with a summary of several Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) policy questions the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has raised in an advance notice of proposed rulemaking. Next, we examine two...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

PTAB Strategies and Insights Newsletter - May 2023: Case Highlights: PTAB Precedential and Informative Decisions, Director Review...

This recurring feature highlights any new PTAB precedential and/or informative decisions, any new substantive Director review decisions, and any new substantive decisions issued by the Precedential Opinion Panel (POP). The...more

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PTAB/USPTO Update - April 2023

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On March 6, the USPTO announced a new Green Energy Category of its Patents for Humanity Program. Patents for Humanity is an awards competition that recognizes innovators who use technology to meet global humanitarian...more

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PTAB/USPTO Update - November 2022

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USPTO News - ..On October 19, 2022 the USPTO issued a report titled “Where are U.S. women patentees? Assessing three decades of growth” examining trends in women’s patenting in the U.S. from 1990-2019. ..Director...more

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U.S. Patent and Trademark Office seeks stakeholder input on Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision-making procedures

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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's interim procedures for reviewing decisions of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board are receiving increased scrutiny. On July 20, 2022, the PTO issued a notice announcing notice-and-comment...more

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PTAB Precedential Decision Clarifies When a Wire Transfer “Payment Is Received” by the Board

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The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Precedential Opinion Panel (POP) recently issued a precedential decision clarifying when a wire transfer “payment is received” via the Federal Reserve Fedwire System (Fedwire)....more

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PTAB/USPTO Update - August 2021

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USPTO Leadership - ..Drew Hirshfeld is still performing the functions and duties of Director. The Biden Administration has not made an announcement as to who will be nominated to become the next Director....more

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Precedential: PTAB Will Rarely Identify MTA Unpatentability Grounds

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The PTAB may sua sponte raise unpatentability grounds based upon the prior art of record when reviewing a motion to amend. Nike, Inc. v. Adidas AG, 955 F.3d 45, 51 (Fed. Cir. 2020). It is now clear, however, that the PTAB...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

PTAB Strategies and Insights - July 2020

The PTAB Strategies and Insights newsletter provides timely updates and insights into how best to handle proceedings at the USPTO. It is designed to increase return on investment for all stakeholders looking at the entire...more

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PTAB Explains When Sua Sponte Arguments Will Be Allowed

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On July 6, the USPTO’s Precedential Opinion Panel (POP) issued a precedential decision in Hunting Titan, Inc. v. DynaEnergetics Europe GmbH, Case IPR2018-00600, Paper 67 (P.T.A.B. July 6, 2020) (precedential), explaining the...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

PTAB Strategies and Insights - May 2020: Should USPTO Be Able to Make New Law Without Rulemaking

Since arriving at the USPTO, Director Iancu has tried to bring clear messages and consistency to the Office. For purposes of this article, we concentrate on the new POP procedures for Board case law and rules, and how the...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

2019 PTAB Year in Review: Analysis & Trends: Consistency at the PTAB

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) implemented a number of measures designed to increase the consistency and predictability of panel decisions in the second half of 2018. These measures included the establishment of the...more

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Issue Twenty-Three: PTAB Trial Tracker

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The availability of post-grant proceedings at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) has changed the face of patent litigation. This monthly digest is designed to keep you up-to-date by highlighting interesting PTAB,...more

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2019 PTAB Year in Review

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is pleased to present our 2019 PTAB Year in Review. We begin the 2019 PTAB Year in Review with a review of 2019 petition filings at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and then take a...more

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PTAB - 2019 Year in Review

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To wrap up 2019 and usher in 2020 for practitioners who handle Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) matters, Foley partners Jeanne Gills, Steve Maebius, and George Quillin discussed 2019’s major developments in a webinar on...more

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