In the Final Written Decision in L&P Property Management Company v. National Products Inc., the PTAB construed the terms “molded docking station,” “molded wall,” and “molded apparatus body” as product-by-process li…
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Two patents directed to “detect[ing] invalid and fraudulent impressions and clicks in web-based advertisement systems” are Covered Business Method Patents under Section 18 of the America Invents Act, and moreover are patent-in…
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The Federal Circuit recently clarified the scope of estoppel for inter partes reexaminations, ruling in a pair of decisions that a district-court decision only estops arguments against individual claims of a patent and that a dism…
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When a patent owner disclaims patent claims for which another party petitions for Covered Business Method Review, the petition is moot. The rule is pretty clear on this point: “[t]he patent owner may file a statutory disclaime…
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