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...
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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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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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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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Section 315(c) of the America Invents Act (“AIA”) provides that if the Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office...
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On Monday, February 12, 2018, the Federal Circuit reversed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (“the Board”) anticipation rejections...