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LKQ Corporation and Keystone Automotive Industries, Inc. (collectively "LKQ") filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) to challenge the validity of GM Global Technology Operations LLC's ("GM")...

Brooks Kushman serves as design patent counsel for Ford Motor Company and has closely followed this case. Attorneys Frank Angileri and Marc Lorelli from Brooks Kushman filed an amicus...

Claim terms are usually given their ordinary meaning in light of the intrinsic evidence, but what if the ordinary meaning of two claim terms presents an obvious contradiction? That is...

In Medtronic, Inc., Medtronic Vascular, Inc., v. Teleflex Innovations S.A.R.L., the case addresses the weight the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) should give to the intended...

The biopharmaceutical and healthcare fields produce massive amounts of data.... AI systems trained on such data can streamline and optimize the drug development process.

How we know you "have' the invention

An inter partes review (or IPR) of a patent is a trial proceeding conducted by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) when there is a challenge to patentability. The procedure for...

Manual of Patent Examining Procedure sets forth the following requirements for an obvious to try-type rejection by the United States Patent and Trademark Office: a finding that at the time of the invention, a finding that there had been a finite number of identified