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Part I of this article discussed how the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is a very different tribunal from district courts.... Part II will discuss strategies that give patent owners a better chance at successfully navigating the IPR process.

After supposedly canceling a new game in the franchise Tony Hawk's Pro Skater At the beginning of the week, Activision was involved in another controversy last Tuesday (07). According to the District Court of Delaware, United States, the North American giant had violated two patents belonging to another company and is now subject to paying…

A published U.S. patent application that never issued as a patent can be used as the basis for an IPR challenge because it’s printed and it’s a publication, right? Not so fast.

Although the proceedings before federal district courts may not garner as much attention as those of the U.S. Court of appeals for the Federal Circuit or the Supreme Court, they can be an important proving ground for the decisions rendered by those courts.

In Salesforce.com, Inc. v. WSOU Investments, LLC d/b/a Brazos Licensing and Development, the Board denied institution of inter partes review of a patent directed to providing content to a limited display terminal (e.g., a PDA) ...

In Salesforce.com, Inc. v. WSOU Investments, LLC d/b/a Brazos Licensing and Development, the Board denied institution of inter partes review of a patent directed to providing content to...

The Federal Circuit has recently provided substantial guidance on whether printed publications include documents publicly available via the internet. This article reviews four such...

The United States is a federal system, with overlapping federal and state jurisdictions, including 96 federal judicial districts and 50 individual US…

A weekly summary of the precedential patent-related opinions issued by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the opinions designated precedential or informative by the Patent...

Even though last week was argument week, that didn't slow down the issuance of decisions at the Federal Circuit.