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In a recent Boardside Chat webinar, a panel made up of PTAB judges and practicing attorneys discussed the use of experts and expert testimony in American Invents Act (AIA) proceedings. ...
I have a life sciences litigation practice with a focus on patent contentious proceedings (PTAB, district court, and on appeal to the Federal Circuit). Since the beginning of my career...
To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. On April 11, 2021, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) held a Boardside Chat webinar to discuss remote hearings in AIA trials and ex parte appeals. The discussion featured panelists Lead judges Georgianna Braden and Jessica Kaiser, Deputy Chief Clerk Kulunie Cannon, and PTAB practitioners David McCombs and Pauline Pelletier. The webinar began with a presentation by Chief Clerk Erica Swift, who discussed the PTAB's standard procedures for arranging and conducting remote hearings, as wel...
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On April 11, 2021, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) held a Boardside Chat webinar to discuss remote hearings in AIA trials and ex parte appeals. The discussion featured panelists Lead judges Georgianna Braden and Jessica Kaiser, Deputy Chief Clerk Kulunie Cannon, and PTAB practitioners David McCombs and Pauline Pelletier. The webinar began with a presentation by Chief Clerk Erica Swift, who discussed the PTAB’s standard procedures for arranging and conducting remote hearings, as well as recent hearing statistics. Prior...
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: First, Vice Chief Judge Michael Tierney discussed what he called the “ SAS Rules Package”— a United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) final rule issued on December 9, 2020 that made three revisions to the rules governing the PTAB’s institution decisions in AIA trial proceedings. The first revision implements the U.S. Supreme Court’s holding in SAS Institute Inc. v. Iancu, 138 S. Ct. 1348 (2018)—that when the PTAB is deciding whether to institute inter partes review (“IPR”), the PTAB has a binary ch...