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

A Reissue Is Not a Re-Issue and Other Patent Correction Procedures

From time to time, a patent owner may become aware of an error in her patent. Some errors may be minor, and the patent owner may seek correction of minor errors via a USPTO Certificate of Correction (CoC). With a CoC, the...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

Broad Files Reply to CVC's Opposition to Broad's Contingent Motion to Correct Inventorship

Last month, Senior Party The Broad Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Harvard University (hereinafter, "Broad") filed its reply to an opposition to Broad's motion to correct inventorship filed by Junior...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Patent Owner Granted Leave in IPR to Seek Correction of Claims Held Indefinite in Parallel District Court Litigation

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board recently granted a patent owner’s request to seek a certificate of correction for certain claims of a patent undergoing an inter partes review (“IPR”). In granting the request, the board...more

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PTAB Rules Certificate of Correction is Not Retroactive in IPR

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On remand from the Federal Circuit, the PTAB ruled that a patentee’s certificate of correction—issued after the Board invalidated the claims in a final written decision—could not be applied retroactively. After the IPR...more

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

Federal Circuit Appeals From The PTAB: Summaries of Key 2019 Decisions: Honeywell International Inc. v. Arkema Inc., 939 F.3d 1345...

Honeywell owns U.S. Patent 9,157,017, which claims automotive air-conditioning systems. The application to the ’017 patent had originally described and recited claims for flouroalkane compounds for use in refrigeration...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

PTAB: Correction to Claim of Priority Has No Impact Following a Final Written Decision in an IPR

A panel at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) recently held that a certificate of correction fixing an error in a patent’s claim of priority did not apply retroactively in light of an already issued final written...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Only Director May Decide Merits of Certificate of Correction

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Addressing limitations on the role of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit explained that the PTAB erred in rejecting a patent owner’s request to file a request for a...more

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Federal Circuit Review - October 2019

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The PTAB Cannot Approve or Deny Certificates of Correction - In Honeywell International, Inc. v. Arkema Inc., Arkema France, Appeal Nos. 2018-1151, -1153, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“Board”) does not have the...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Latest Federal Court Cases - October 2019

PATENT CASE OF THE WEEK - American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc. v. Neapco Holdings LLC, Appeal No. 2018-1763 (Fed. Cir. Oct. 3, 2019) - In this week’s Case of the Week, the Federal Circuit considered whether patent...more

Troutman Pepper

What Belongs to the Director Stays With the Director

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Honeywell Int’l v. Arkema, Inc., Appeal No. 2018-1151, -1153 (Fed. Cir., October 1, 2019) - Arkema filed two petitions for post-grant review of a Honeywell patent pertaining to fluoroalkene compounds used in refrigerator...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

PTAB Allows Petitioner to Supplement Record Regarding Publication Date of Prior Art Reference

On October 23, 2017, a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) panel granted Petitioner’s Motion to Submit Supplemental Information (“the Motion”) on the publication date of an asserted reference. At the time the Petition was...more

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Lessons from the PTAB’s Recent Denial of a Request for Certificate of Correction

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In a final written decision, the Board denied a patent owner’s request for a certificate of correction filed shortly after IPR institution in Douglas Dynamics, L.L.C. v. Meyer Products, LLC, IPR2015-01839, Paper 51 (P.T.A.B....more

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