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Over the past 20 years, the Federal Circuit’s opinion in SuperGuide Corp. v. DirectTV Enters., Inc., 358 F.3d 870 (Fed. Cir. 2004), which defined the plain and ordinary meaning of the...
On September 21, 2022, Director Vidal delivered a letter to Senators Hirono and Tillis, discussing sanctions that USPTO may impose on parties for misconduct or abuse of the IPR process.
This post reviews three July 2022 opinions from the Western and Eastern Districts of Texas resolving motions to stay. The first case involves the denial of a stay pending...
In Qualcomm Inc. v. Intel Corp., the Federal Circuit held that Qualcomm was not afforded notice of, or an adequate opportunity to respond to, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's (PTAB's)...
In Comcast Cable Communications, LLC v. Promptu Systems Corp., 1 the Federal Circuit held that the plain meaning of the claim phrase “command function” was limited to functions that command an action to be taken. The meaning of this claim phrase turned out to be a focal point, and Comcast lost its invalidity challenge to the claims as a result of this interpretation. Comcast filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) of U.S. Patent No. 7,260,538 (the ’538 patent) on the grounds that the contested claims would have been obvious in view of two prior art references—U.S. Patent No. ...