Posts Tagged: Leahy-Smith AIA
USPTO Releases 2018-2022 Strategic Plan to Optimize Timeliness and Quality
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently released its 2018-2022 Strategic Plan, setting various goals to ensure high quality services for the agency’s customers and …
Industry Reaction to Helsinn Healthcare v. Teva Pharmaceuticals Oral Arguments
On Tuesday, December 4th, oral arguments were held before the U.S. Supreme Court in Helsinn Healthcare S.A. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA. The nation’s highest …
Supreme Court Hears Helsinn v. Teva: Does On-Sale Bar Capture Secret Sales
On the morning of Tuesday, December 4th, the U.S. Supreme Court held oral arguments in the case of Helsinn Healthcare S.A. v. Teva Pharmaceutical USA (…
Serial and Duplicative Petitions at PTAB by Apple, Other Tech Giants Flout Congressional Intent
The Alliance of U.S. Startups and Inventors for Jobs (USIJ) recently released a report detailing the organization’s research into serial attacks on high quality patents …
Supreme Court to Determine if Federal Government Is a ‘Person’ Eligible to Petition the PTAB
The case will ask the highest court in the nation to determine whether the federal government is a person who may petition the Patent Trial and Appeal …
The USPTO Must End Repeated and Concerted Patent Attacks
Why is it that innovators such as Universities and independent inventors are caricatured as patent trolls while entities such as Unified Patents and RPX, who exist for …
Harmonizing the PTAB: Iancu calls change to Phillips ‘critically important’
"It seems self-evident that the same patent contested in different tribunals should have its meaning – its boundaries – determined using the same standard," Director Iancu said when discussing …
Supreme Court asked to apply Multiple Proceeding rule to end harassing validity challenges
The Multiple Proceedings rule has become the essence of uncertainty. What exactly does it mean? §325(d) gives the PTO Director the authority to refuse a petition when “…
PTAB Upholds Kamatani Cloud Patent Challenged by Unified Patents
Last week the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) entered a final written decision terminating an inter partes review (IPR) proceeding that had challenged a patent owned …
Smartflash Petitions Supreme Court to Challenge PTAB under Appointments Clause
In early August, patent owner Smartflash filed a petition for a writ of certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court to appeal a case stemming from covered …
Analyzing Amicus Briefs Filed in Support of Granting Cert. in Helsinn
On June 25th, the the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear Helsinn Healthcare S.A. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc., on appeal from the Federal Circuit. …
Supreme Court Petition Challenges PTAB’s Constitutionality Under the Takings Clause
Advanced Audio’s petition for writ of certiorari notes, all five patents were filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office prior to the enactment of …
More Dreck on Patent Trolls from Attorneys Cozying Up to Silicon Valley
Principe and Rudroff unfortunately regurgitate much of the misguided dialogue, which has done nothing to serve this country except to decimate its patent system in recent years. …
Legislation Introduced in House to Repeal the PTAB and the AIA
There are 13 sections to Massie’s bill, many of which are geared towards the abolition of various statutes of the AIA. Perhaps the most salient portion of …
House Small Business Committee Holds Hearing on IP in Digital Economy With a Mostly Anti-Patent Panel
On the morning of Wednesday, July 11th, the House Small Business Committee held a hearing titled Innovation Nation: How Small Businesses in the Digital Technology Industry Use …
