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Post grant proceedings are various administrative proceedings to remediate or invalidate a patent.

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PTAB must resolve all challenged patent claims in IPR

May 4, 2018 by James Yang

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Basic background of inter partes review An IPR refers to an inter partes review.  The IPR is an administrative proceeding before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) of the USPTO in which a petitioner can request claims of a patent be invalidated to avoid patent infringement liability.  The petitioner is normally a business competitor to the patent owner wherein the patent … [Read more...]

Bar to initiate Covered Business Method review was raised

April 18, 2017 by James Yang

CBM Bar Raised

The threshold bar for being able to successfully petition the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to initiate the covered business method review used to be low.  See Versata.  However, in Secure Axcess, LLC v. PNC Bank (Fed. Cir. 2/21/17), the Federal Circuit raised the threshold standard so that only claims that have a … [Read more...]

Reigning back applicability of Covered Business Method Review

January 11, 2017 by James Yang

Reign Back

The applicability of Covered Business Method Review was significantly reigned back by the Federal Circuit in Unwired Planet, LLC. v. Google Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2016).  Covered Business Method Review is a type of post grant proceeding at the USPTO wherein a third party, usually a defendant or an accused patent infringer, challenges the validity of a patent in order to avoid patent … [Read more...]

Covered Business Method is broadly applied

April 24, 2016 by James Yang

Covered Business Method

I.  Background of Covered Business Method review Under U.S. patent laws, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) can review the validity of patents that are financial in nature under a Covered Business Method (“CBM”) review.  CBM review is great for potential defendants who might want to invalidate a patent that they may be infringing.  The USPTO is also helping … [Read more...]

Advantages of an IPR for defendants

August 24, 2015 by James Yang

Bottom line: For parties accused of patent infringement an IPR (inter partes review) for the reasons below is an attractive alternative to full-blown litigation for attacking the validity of a patent. Amendments to the claims are limited to one with any further amendments being only by petition. The patent owner must show why the amended claims are patentable over the … [Read more...]

CBM patents broadly construed as any financial activity

August 18, 2015 by James Yang

Bottom line: A covered business method (CBM) proceeding is a post patent grant proceeding at the United States Patent and Trademark Office.  Anyone to challenge the validity of certain patents based on any invalidity ground, with minor ramifications if they also end up in full blown litigation in district court.  Under Versata v. Sap (Fed. Cir. 2015), CBM proceedings are not … [Read more...]

IPR an attractive alternative to litigation

February 18, 2015 by James Yang

Bottom line: Defendants should strongly consider an Inter Partes Review (IPR), a proceeding before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) when accused of patent infringement because it may be easier to invalidate the patent at the PTAB instead of at the Federal district court.  In re Cuozzo Speed Technologies, LLC (Fed. … [Read more...]

Patent owner can’t sue alleged infringer again on reexamined claims

May 19, 2014 by James Yang

Patent owner can't sue alleged infringer again on reexamined claims The following case illustrates a tension between the claim preclusion doctrine which bars relitigation of claims decided in earlier litigation between the parties (i.e., res judicata) and the reexamination procedure at the United States Patent and Trademark Office.  Claim preclusion provides that the parties … [Read more...]

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