Supreme Court Review in SAS Institute May Impact the Scope of Appealability and Estoppel in AIA Proceedings
Recently, the Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments on the question of whether the PTAB is required to issue a…
Jonathan Bowser Quoted in The Wall Street Journal & Law360 About Supreme Court’s Decision on Patent Infringement
Jonathan Bowser was quoted in The Wall Street Journal‘s article “Supreme Court Limits Where Patent-Infringement Cases Can Be Filed.” “Texas…
Supreme Court Curbs Venue Shopping in Patent Infringement Cases—Delaware Likely to See Increase in Infringement Actions
Venue Shopping Used for Decades Has Been Curtailed For the last 25 years, patent owners have taken advantage of a…
Patent Owner Comments During an IPR Can Lead to Prosecution Disclaimer — Even for Non-Instituted Claims
The doctrine of prosecution disclaimer prevents patent owners from recapturing specific meanings of claim terms that were disclaimed during prosecution.…
IPR Estoppel Update: District Courts are Questioning the Reasoning of Shaw But are Compelled to Follow It
Challenging the validity of a patent in an inter partes review (IPR) or post-grant review (PGR) does not come without…
Federal Circuit: AIA On-Sale Bar Applies Even if Details of Invention Are Not Publicly Disclosed
In reversing a previous U.S. District Court ruling, the Federal Circuit held on May 1, 2017 that entering into and…