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Whether an argument raised in a Petitioner Reply falls within the scope of permissible arguments following a Patent Owner Response (POR) in IPR proceedings is a frequent source of...

Whether an argument raised in a Petitioner Reply falls within the scope of permissible arguments following a Patent Owner Response in IPR proceedings is a frequent source of dispute.

Lagos Governorship tribunal: APC,Labour Party in panic mode as parties adopt final written addresses. Abimbola Olatunji who dissected all parties final written addresses, opined that PDP is on the verge of winning Lagos. Parties at the Governorship election petition tribunal in Lagos Sate are All progressives Congress, APC, Labour Party and the People’s Democratic Party,…

Petitioners should be cautious of introducing a new theory in a Petitioner Reply before the PTAB. On February 7, 2023, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board ("PTAB") entered a final written decision...

Petitioners should be cautious of introducing a new theory in a Petitioner Reply before the PTAB. On February 7, 2023, the Patent Trial and Appeal…

The US Patent & Trademark Office (PTO) Director issued a precedential opinion finding that filing an inter partes review (IPR) solely to extract payment in a settlement—without the...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On December 8th, the PTAB published a Final Rule, formalizing a number of PTAB practices dictated by case law and described in the current Trial Practice Guide.  The one substantive change of note is the removal to deference to the Petitioner’s Expert’s declaration at the Institution Decision, where current 37 C.F.R. § 42.108(c) is adjusted from: The Board’s decision will take into account a patent owner  preliminary respo...