On January 24, 2019, the PTAB denied institution of inter partes review (“IPR”) in Deeper, UAB v. Vexilar, Inc., Case IPR2018-01310...
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The United States government is currently in a partial shutdown due to a lapse in appropriated funding for a portion of the federal...
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The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“the PTAB” or “the Board”) is preparing for its first instance of the newly created Precedential...
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The United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO” or the “Office”) recently proposed new AIA trial procedures aimed at...
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The PTAB will soon implement a change in its claim construction standard in post-issuance reviews, moving from the broadest reasonable...
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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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The PTAB has broad discretion under 35 U.S.C. § 325(d) to deny institution if “the same or substantially the same prior art or arguments...
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The USPTO first published its AIA Trial Practice Guide (“TPG”) in August 2012. The TPG provides practitioners with guidance on typical...
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Following the SAS Institute decision by the Supreme Court (which we covered in a separate post on the PTAB Law blog), the U.S. Patent and...