The Federal Circuit’s May 8, 2017 opinion in Intellectual Ventures II LLC v. Ericsson, Inc., while non-precedential, provides useful insight into bounds of procedural due process requirements in an IPR proceeding. Due process necessitates “notice and an opportunity to be heard.” Further, because IPRs are a formal administrative adjudication under the Administrative Procedure Act
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PTAB: No Chance to Re-characterize Disclosures of Reference in IPRs
By Spencer J. Johnson on
Posted in PTAB Decisions
Final Written Decisions were entered on March 7, 2017 in 6 IPRs brought by Qualcomm Inc. against ParkerVision, Inc (IPR2015-01828, -01829, -01831, -01832, -01833, and -01834). These 6 IPRs all challenged patent 6,091,940 (the ’940 patent), a patent directed to methods and systems where a signal with a lower frequency is up-converted to a higher…