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CLE Event: Review of First Year of Patent Office Trials

The America Invents Act provides us several new ways to challenge issued patents. If you are curious about what we have learned in this first year fourteen months of patent office trials, please tune into my hour webinar tomorrow morning (Dec. … Continue reading

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Divided Federal Circuit Panel Finds Computer System Claims Not Patent-Eligible

Posted:  September 8, 2013 On September 5, 2013, the Federal Circuit affirmed a District court holding that a computer system claim was not patent-eligible under 35 U.S.C. § 101.  In Accenture Global Servs., GmbH v. Guidewire Software, Inc., a divided panel … Continue reading

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PTAB Provides More Guidance on Discovery

On March 5, 2013, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB or Board) provided guidance to the bar concerning routine discovery and additional discovery.  (See paper 26 in Garmin v. Cuozzo, IPR2012-00001) This decision set forth five factors which are important in … Continue reading

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More Developments in the Patent Battle between SAP and Versata

There has been a lot of activity in the litigations arising from the patent battle between SAP and Versata.  You will recall that there are parallel Federal Circuit, PTAB, and Eastern District of Virginia actions.  There have been activities in … Continue reading

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SAP Moves for a Stay of Parallel Federal Circuit Action After PTAB Win

SAP’s fight to dismiss Versata’s U.S. 6,553,350 patent assertion continues.  After SAP’s win in the PTAB on June 11, 2013, SAP filed a motion to stay the parallel Federal Circuit appeal on June 17th.  Now the Federal Circuit must decide … Continue reading

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PTAB CBM: Versata Patent Claims Unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. § 101

On June 11, 2013, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a decision holding claims 17 and 26-29 of Versata’s 6,553,350 patent  unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. § 101.  This decision arises from a petition filed on Sep. 16, 2012, in a … Continue reading

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AIA Post-Grant Practice Rapidly Integrates Federal Circuit and Board Decisions

AIA post-grant practice has many advantages over other proceedings, but one of the great benefits of AIA post-grant practice that we have not discussed is the speed in which AIA post-grant proceedings adopt recent patent decisions from different sources.  This … Continue reading

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Patent Office Guidance for Examiners in wake of CLS Bank Decision: No Change for Now

On May 13, 2013, the Patent Office issued a memo to USPTO examiners after the CLS Bank et al. v. Alice Corp. Federal Circuit en banc decision of last week.  The memo instructs examiners to maintain existing examination procedure for … Continue reading

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A Tale of Two Patent Litigation Stays

This is a story about not one, but two stays.  The first stay is a district court stay pending the outcome of a reexamination of a patent in suit.  The second is an administrative (PTAB) stay of that same reexamination … Continue reading

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PTAB IPR Petition Joinder Practice Gains Momentum

Suppose a patent owner files suit and the defendant wants to file an AIA post-grant proceeding to challenge the validity of the patent.  Suppose further that the post-grant challenge is an inter partes review (IPR) filed by the defendant within … Continue reading

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