Joao entity Caselas' patent likely invalid — Unified Patents

On October 19, 2021, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted trial on all challenged claims of U.S. Patent 9,715,691 , which is being asserted by Caselas, LLC, a Raymond Anthony Joao entity. The '691 patent is generally directed to...

Unified Defeats Constitutional Arguments; Arthrex Remand Granted — Unified Patents

On October 13, 2021, the Federal Circuit (2-1 majority) ruled in favor of Unified Patents, rejecting Mobility Workx's arguments that the PTAB has a financial interest in instituting IPRs. All of Mobility Workx's constitutional arguments were...

Latest Ruling On PTAB Constitutionality Tees Up More Fights - Law360

The lengthy string of challenges to the constitutionality of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board appears set to continue after a dissent by a Federal Circuit judge on Wednesday identified another potential flaw in the board that seems likely to spur...

Split Federal Circuit rejects constitutional challenge to patent board structure

A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday rejected a constitutional challenge to a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office tribunal that can review and cancel patents, which was accused of having a bias toward instituting reviews because of financial incentives.

Divided Fed. Circuit Panel Rejects Patent Board Bias Attacks (1)

The Federal Circuit accepted patent owner Mobility Workx LLC’s argument that its case should be sent back to the patent office for director review in light of a recent U.S. Supreme Court case finding administrative patent judges were...

Federal Circuit Holds That the PTAB Does Not Have an Impermissible Incentive to Institute IPRs | JD Supra

MOBILITY WORKX, LLC v. UNIFIED PATENTS, LLC Before Newman, Schall, and Dyk. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. ...

Case: Patents/Procedure (Fed. Cir.)

The court remanded to the PTAB to determine whether to grant rehearing of Unified Patents LLC’s challenge to Mobility Workx LLC’s patent for methods for proactive allocation of wireless resources, for the limited purpose of allowing Mobility the...

Apple loses (and wins) rulings in 'home button' patent dispute

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit on Monday affirmed Apple Inc's Patent Trial and Appeal Board win invalidating parts of a fingerprint-authentication patent owned by Korean patent owner Firstface Co Ltd, but also upheld two other...

Endpoint IP's entity Eighth Street patent found invalid — Unified Patents

On October 5, 2021, the Central Reexamination Unit of the USPTO issued a final office action rejecting all claims of U.S. Patent 7,664,924 , owned and asserted by Eighth Street Solutions, LLC, an NPE and Endpoint IP entity. The ’924 patent is...

Avoiding IPR via Contract

by Dennis Crouch Kannuu Pty. LTD v. Samsung Electronics Co., LTD (Fed. Cir. 2021)(KannuuSamsungDecision) US Courts typically enforce choice-of-forum provisions found …

Sound View reexam won — Unified Patents

On October 4, 2021, the Central Reexamination Unit of the United States Patent and Trademark Office issued a final office action rejecting all of the challenged claims of U.S. Patent 7,426,715 , owned by Sound View Innovations, LLC ....

Jeffrey M. Gross entity Netcom Global Solutions' patent challenged — Unified Patents

On October 8, 2021, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 8,316,128 , owned and asserted by Netcom Global Solutions LLC, a Jeffrey M. Gross entity. The '128 patent is generally directed to a firewall that...

With Help From Textbook, Hulu Beats Data Patent At PTAB - Law360

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has sided with Hulu that a data processing patent was invalid in light of an earlier textbook, a decision that came after the board's precedent-setting panel ruled last year that the online streaming company had...

IPR Denied? Alternate Path Still Open After Fed. Circ. Case - Law360

A Federal Circuit decision narrowing when the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office can reexamine patents after an inter partes review petition is denied may encourage patent owners to attack a growing number of reexamination requests by petitioners,...

Joseph Yoon patent challenged — Unified Patents

On October 1, 2021, Unified filed a petition for inter partes review (IPR) against U.S. Patent 9,376,076 , owned and asserted by Joseph Y. Yoon IP LLC. The '076 patent is generally directed to airbag deployment technology currently being...

Guest Post: The AIA at Ten - How Much Do the Pre-AIA Prior Art Rules Still Matter?

New Patently-O Law Journal article by Colleen V. Chien, Professor of Law and Co-Director, High Tech Law Institute, and Janelle …

Developments re Fintiv Discretionary Denials of IPR Petitions | JD Supra

As we’ve noted in earlier blog posts, following the Fintiv decision, the PTAB has been denying petitions where a federal court is likely to decide...

PTAB and CAFC Crush Patents on Business Methods and Software, So Dennis Crouch Tries to Slow Them Down

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) have together eliminated perhaps several thousands of patents (even more by extension, by means of precedence), so the meta-industry associated with such...