The Supreme Court of the United States issued a ruling today in Return Mail, Inc. v. Postal Service, 587 U.S. ___ (2019), holding that the...
PGR
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On April 16, 2019, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“the PTAB” or “the Board”) designated three orders as precedential related to...
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On October 11, 2018, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced a change in the claim construction standard used for...
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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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USPTO Trims the Regulatory Fat
On Friday, January 19, 2018, in a Federal Register notice, the USPTO identified four regulations that it is proposing to abolish. The...
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Post-grant review (PGR) is the least common post-issuance trial proceeding before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Only 1% of...
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In an effort to combat pharmaceutical patent holders, several companies are now filing petitions for post-grant review on the theory that...
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In Cox Communications, Inc. v. Sprint Communication Co. LP, No. 2016-1013 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 23, 2016), the Federal Circuit reversed the...
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The PTAB has been reluctant to find that an unnamed party is a real party-in-interest in an AIA review or in privity with the named...