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In Apple v. Zipit Wireless, the Director of the USPTO initiated a sua sponte review of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s adverse judgments in multiple inter partes review proceedings. The PTO Director ordered judgments be vacated and remanded for further consideration.
Patent Trial and Appeal Board in OpenSky Indus., LLC v. VLSI Tech. LLC analyzed OpenSky’s Petition under §314d and §325d, declining to deny institution, finding, in part, that since Fintiv and General Plastic did not warrant discretionary denial.
Advertisement Patent Owner Tip #2 for Surviving An Instituted IPR: Don’t Swing for the Fences in IPR Depositions Thursday, April 15, 2021 As discussed in our previous post, one of the most critical tasks for Patent Owners during the Inter Partes Reviews (“IPR”) discovery period is deposing the Petitioner’s expert. Since IPR depositions are treated differently than fact-gathering depositions in district court litigation, a Patent Owner should approach the IPR deposition with different goals. In IPR proceedings, expert witnesses provide declarations as affirmative testimony p...