In the Federal Circuit’s recent decision of CUPP Computing AS v. Trend Micro Inc., the Court made the precedential holding that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“the Board”) is not bound by a party’s disclaimer in the very IPR proceeding in which it is made, just as a disclaimer in a district court
On October 4, 2022, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced that it would be extending the Motion to Amend (MTA) Pilot Program at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) for a second time—now set to run through September 16, 2024.[1]
The MTA Pilot Program was initiated on March 15, 2019,