Tag Archives: Post Grant Review

AIA Patent Trials Differ from Reexamination

In the past few months, I have had discussions with many different stakeholders about how AIA post-grant review differs from conventional reexamination.  AIA patent trials (post-grant review or PGR, inter partes review or IPR, and covered business method patent review … Continue reading

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Petitions to PTAB at Three Months into AIA Post-Grant Patent Trials

This blog post is at three months past September 16, 2012, the date upon which the PTAB began accepting petitions for inter partes review and covered business method patent review under the America Invents Act.  Considering that there are about 15 CBM … Continue reading

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PTAB Provides Convenient Access to Instructive Orders, Notices, and Decisions

The Patent Trial and Appeals Board has provided a web page that compiles instructive orders, notices, and decisions.  This is a handy reference site for practitioners to learn from decisions made in various covered business method (CBM), inter partes reviews … Continue reading

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Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Guidance on Pro Hac Vice Admissions

The PTAB (“Board”) has already decided some motions for pro hac vice admission in various PTAB case proceedings.  A recent decision in case IPR2012-00035 referenced an earlier decision on motion for pro hac vice admission in case IPR2013-00010.  The relevant part … Continue reading

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Steady Stream of AIA Post-Issuance Review Petitions Filed in PTAB

It has been a little over one month since post grant patent reviews were authorized by the AIA and the Patent Office Patent Review Processing System (PRPS) shows about 47 petitions on file in the PTAB. Look at it this … Continue reading

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PTAB PRPS Trials Portal Gets Software Improvements

The PTAB PRPS Trials Portal just got better.  If you login to the system (depending on what browser you are using), you will see that PRPS now provides much better access to all public documents in each case.  This upgrade … Continue reading

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Parallel Litigation and PTAB Review Create Complex Interplay of Patentability and Validity

A company called CoreLogic Solutions, LLC owns U.S. Patent No. 5,361,201, relating to a process for appraising real estate property.  The ‘201 patent was filed on Oct. 19, 1992 and issued on Nov. 1, 1994.  Absent some kind of patent term extension, the ‘201 … Continue reading

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More Inter Partes Patent Reviews Filed on the PTAB PRPS

As of 01:00 on September 27, the number of petitions for covered business method (CBM) patent reviews remained at 6, but five more petitions for inter partes reviews (IPRs) were filed, making a total of 17 IPRs.  The total number of pending … Continue reading

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Comparative Study of Post Issuance Review Options

Today I had the pleasure of co-presenting at the Midwest IP Institute on various post-issuance proceedings with Kevin Rhodes, Chief Intellectual Property Counsel and President of 3M Innovative Properties Company.  A PDF of our joint presentation is found here. The presentation provides … Continue reading

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PTAB Patent Review Processing System (PRPS) Update

If you are a registered user of the Patent Review Processing System (PRPS) you may have encountered the same problem I did.  When logging in, I can see some matters where the petitions can be viewed, but other matters where … Continue reading

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