On Wednesday, May 9, 2018, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published a notice of proposed rulemaking in the Federal Register,...
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Yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued two important decisions relating to inter partes review (IPR) proceedings before the Patent Trial...
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In an attempt to challenge the patentability of an issued claim, petitioners every so often come across a prior art reference that...
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Since the Federal Circuit’s October 5, 2017 decision in Amgen Inc. v. Sanofi overruling the so-called “newly characterized antigen”...
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Making up only around 7% of post-grant trials at the PTAB (according to statistics released by the USPTO from February 2018), the number of...
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On Thursday, March 15, 2018, Commissioner for Patents, Andrew Hirshfeld, announced that the USPTO is making progress on its “Access to...
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In Titanium Metals Corp. v. Banner, the Federal Circuit notably held that it is “an elementary principle of patent law” that when a...
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The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“the PTAB”) ruled last Friday, February 23, 2018, that tribal sovereign immunity does not apply to...
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On Monday, February 12, 2018, the Federal Circuit reversed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (“the Board”) anticipation rejections...