Category: Correction of Petition After Bar
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Unified Patents’ Institution Decision Gives Insight to PTAB’s Real Party in Interest Analysis
Those watching decisions from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB or Board) have observed a trend where a patent owner challenges an IPR petition based on alleged defects in the petition’s identification of real parties in interest (RPI) to the petitioner. As seen in earlier posts, improper identification of RPIs can result in denial of the…
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Patent Board Denies First Data Corp. IPR Petitions Based on Real Party In Interest and One-Year Bar
October 21, 2014 In 2013, Cardsoft, LLC (Patent Owner) sued First Data Corp. (Petitioner) and First Data Merchant Services Corp. for patent infringement in the Eastern District of Texas, serving its complaint on May 2, 2013. (Cardsoft (Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors) LLC v. First Data Corp., Civil Action No. 2:13-cv-290 (E.D. Tex.).) The complaint…