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Advertisement The Current State of Precedential Opinions and Denials of Institution at the USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board: Part 1 Wednesday, May 5, 2021 This article is the first of three that will discuss the USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“Board”)’s use of Precedential Opinions as guidance when exercising discretion whether to institute petitions for post-grant proceedings, inter partes reviews (IPRs) and post-grant reviews (PGRs). In particular, this article addresses the precedential decision, Apple Inc. v. Fintiv, Inc., [1] which outlines six factors for the Board to consider when denying a petition under 35 U.S.C. § 314(a) based on a parallel proceeding. The second article will discuss how the Board can exercise discretion to deny institution under § 325(d) if the petition relies on the same or similar prior art/arguments presented during examination, using the test outlined in ....
New Challenge to IPR Discretionary Denials in View of Parallel Patent Litigation On August 31, 2020, four leading tech companies filed a declaratory action against Andrei Iancu, the Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”), challenging the USPTO’s discretionary authority under 35 U.S.C. § 314(a) to deny inter partes review (“IPR”) petitions in view of parallel patent litigation. Apple, Inc. v. Iancu, Case No. 5:20-CV-06128-EJD, Dkt. 1 (N.D. Cal. Aug. 31, 2020). Just two weeks later, several self-proclaimed Small Business Inventors, led by the non-profit US Inventor, moved to intervene seeking to enhance the Director’s discretionary authority. Dkt. 28. Soon after, US Inventor moved for a preliminary injunction to enjoin the USPTO from instituting ....
Federal Circuit Appeals from the PTAB and ITC: Summaries of Key 2020 Decisions: Thryv, Inc. v. Click-To-Call Technologies, Inc., 140 S. Ct. 1367 (2020) | Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C. jdsupra.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from jdsupra.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: In a precedential decision, the Federal Circuit held that the threshold determination that appellant SIPCO LLC’s patent qualifies for covered business method (CBM) review is non-appealable. 1 Accordingly, the Federal Circuit held that it is precluded from reviewing SIPCO’s challenge to that threshold determination. 2 Background SIPCO owned a patent for a two-step communication path in which a remote device communicates through a low-power wireless connection to an intermediate node, which connects to a central location. 3 The PTAB instituted CBM review and found claims unpatentable as patent ineligible subject matter under 35 U.S.C. § 101 and as obvious under 35 U.S.C. § 103. ....