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Federal Circuit Slams PTAB Amendment Policy

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On October 4, 2017, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, sitting en banc, overruled an earlier panel decision and found that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) had been impermissibly placing the burden of...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Federal Circuit Applies Prosecution History Estoppel to Issued Claims Based on Amendments Made to Previously Canceled Claims

On September 8, 2016, the Federal Circuit affirmed a decision from the Eastern District of Virginia in which the district court held that UCB, Inc.’s Cimzia® antibody does not infringe Yeda’s U.S. Patent No. 6,090,923 (“the...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

R+L Carriers, Inc. v. Qualcomm, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2015) - Be Wary of Claim Amendments During Reexamination

Traditional patent law holds that a patentee of a patent that survives reexamination is only entitled to infringement damages for the time period between the date of issuance of the original claims and the date of issuance of...more

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