Under the Same Precedent, Different Estoppel Standards Have Developed in the PTAB and the District Courts
Estoppel from inter partes review (IPR) or post-grant review (PGR) prevents the petitioner from raising or maintaining a ground of…
Federal Circuit Vacates PTAB’s Obviousness Determination Due to “Inadequate” Rationale
On February 14, 2017, the Federal Circuit vacated an obviousness determination by a panel of the Patent Trial and Appeal…
Erin Dunston Receives 2017 Lexology Client Choice Award for IP-Patents Category in Virginia
Shareholder Erin Dunston has been named the exclusive winner of the Intellectual Property – Patents category for Virginia by Lexology…
District Court Finds Decision Not to Institute Indicative of Weak Invalidity Case on Summary Judgment
The United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina recently granted summary judgment dismissing defendant’s invalidity claims,…
4 PTAB Lessons on Scope of On-Sale Prior Art
This article was reprinted with permission from Law360. Petitioners in post-grant review and covered business method proceedings under the America…