Requests to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board for rehearing of decisions on Petitions for Inter Partes Review are commonplace. PTAB decisions summarily denying them are as well. In AVX Corporation v. Greatbatch, Ltd., IPR2015-…
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Back in 2012, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially opened its first satellite Office—the Midwest Regional Office—in Detroit, Michigan. In another first for the Detroit Regional Office, on January 11, 2016, the Offic…
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Courts will presume different meanings attach to different words when construing claim language. See, e.g., Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc. v. U.S. Surgical Corp., 93 F.3d 1572, 1579 (Fed. Cir. 1996) (reversing lower court’s ruling t…
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A California district court recently considered the intersection between the patent-eligibility law of Alice and the fee award standard of Octane Fitness, set against the backdrop of a (mostly) successful challenge to the patent-i…
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In In re The Procter & Gamble Company. LLC, No. 121 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 24, 2014), Clio filed a declaratory judgment action against Procter & Gamble (“P&G”), asserting three P&G patents were invalid. After unsucc…
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