Oblon | USA | 8 Aug 2017
Last week, I analyzed the government's arguments supporting Article III standing for intervenors in Knowles Electronics v. Matal. In that case, the…
Oblon | USA | 2 Aug 2017
Assignor Estoppel Not an Exception to 311(a) The Patent Trial & Appeal Board (PTAB) has designated the following decision as precedential: Athena…
Oblon | USA | 1 Aug 2017
USPTO Explains Intervenor Standing Some weeks back in Knowles Electronics v. Matal, the Federal Circuit, sua sponte, asked the following of the…
Oblon | USA | 18 Jul 2017
PTAB practitioners must always be mindful of the Board's longstanding practice to treat grouped claims as standing or falling together. That is…
Oblon | USA | 14 Jul 2017
Judge Gilstrap Singled Out in Congressional Hearing as Defying SCOTUS Yesterday, the House IP Subcommittee on the Courts, Intellectual Property and…
Oblon | USA | 21 Jun 2017
The en banc opinion on the scope of the AIA's appeal bar (35 U.S.C. §§ 324(e)/314(d)) remains outstanding in WiFi One. Still, we have seen a few…
Oblon | USA | 19 Jun 2017
Every so often a decision comes out of the USPTO's Patent Trial & Appeal Board (PTAB) or the Federal Circuit that has immediate value for patent…
Oblon | USA | 13 Jun 2017
The Supreme Court has had at least three occasions over the past 7 months to review the constitutionality of AIA trial proceedings — it declined all…
Oblon | USA | 12 Jun 2017
Back on May 1st of 2016, the Patent Trial & Appeal Board (PTAB) began to accept new testimonial evidence with patentee preliminary responses. The…
Oblon | USA | 7 Jun 2017
Yesterday, the Federal Circuit denied en banc review in Secure Axcess LLC v. PNC Bank National Assoc., et al. The rehearing request sought a Full…