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Speculative IPR Discovery Request Not in the Interest of Justice

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“Because Congress intended inter partes reviews to serve as a faster and more cost-effective alternative to litigating validity in district courts, discovery in inter partes reviews is limited.” See Garmin Int’l, Inc. v....more

McDermott Will & Emery

PTAB Clarifies when Live Testimony at Oral Argument Is Permitted, and Motion to Amend Practice

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) designated as precedential four decisions addressing America Invents Act proceedings and issues of live testimony at oral argument and motions to amend under 35 USC § 316(d)....more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Federal Circuit Finds INOMax Mental Steps Obvious As Ineligible Printed Matter

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In Praxair Distrib., Inc. v. Mallinckrodt Hospital Prods. IP Ltd., the Federal Circuit found that the printed matter doctrine applies equally to physically embodied information and mental steps, and can be invoked in the...more

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

Petitioners Face A Heightened ‘Motion To Combine’ Threshold

The Board has moved the 103 target without warning. As noted in last month’s article on POPR (Patent Owner Preliminary Response) declarations, the Board is using POPR declarations to deny institution for lack of motivation...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

Fresh From the Bench: Precedential Patent Cases From the Federal Circuit

In EmeraChem v Volkswagen the Circuit reverses a determination of obviousness because the ?Board did not provide the patentee with an adequate opportunity to address a prior art reference ?that formed a principal basis for...more

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