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Infringement Judgement Is Only Final When There’s Nothing Left to Do but Execute

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Before Lourie, Hughes, and Stark. Appeal from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas. Summary: An infringement judgment is only sufficiently “final” to be immune from a later finding of unpatentability if...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Protective Order Forecloses Participation of Litigation Counsel in Motion to Amend Process Before the PTAB

In keeping with precedent, a judge in the District of Delaware issued an oral order restricting the extent of permissible activities for litigation counsel before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. The order resolved a...more

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

2023 PTAB Year in Review: Analysis & Trends: Reexamination Statistics and the Federal Circuit’s SNQ Clarification/Expansion

The recent resurgence in ex parte reexamination demonstrates the importance of this post-grant review vehicle. It has become particularly important for patent challengers who may be estopped from requesting inter partes...more

MoFo Life Sciences

Sawing Through Patent Term—The Federal Circuit’s Recent Decision In Sawstop

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Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) is additional patent term for U.S. patents to compensate for delay in issuance. The statute (35 U.S.C. § 154(b)) provides three bases for PTA: delayed response by the USPTO (“A delay”), failure to...more

McDermott Will & Emery

PTO Issues Notice on Duties of Disclosure and Reasonable Inquiry

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The US Patent & Trademark Office (PTO) issued a notice on July 29, 2022, titled “Duties of Disclosure and Reasonable Inquiry During Examination, Reexamination, and Reissue, and for Proceedings Before the Patent Trial and...more

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