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The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act is a United States federal statute enacted in 2011 aimed at simplifying the U.S. patent system and allowing inventions to be brough to market sooner. The AIA makes significant... more +
The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act is a United States federal statute enacted in 2011 aimed at simplifying the U.S. patent system and allowing inventions to be brough to market sooner. The AIA makes significant changes to the patent system, including changing from a first-to-invent scheme to a first-to-file scheme, eliminating interference proceedings and developing post-grant opposition.  less -
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Federal Circuit: On-Sale Bar Still Applies to Secret Use of a Patented Method Under AIA

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The Federal Circuit recently affirmed an ITC holding that the AIA’s § 102 on-sale bar applies to the sale of a product made according to a secret process when that sale occurs more than one year before the patent’s effective...more

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Federal Circuit Review | August 2024

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Specify the Steps of Information Manipulation or Lose under § 101 - In Mobile Acuity Ltd. v. Blippar Ltd. Appeal No. 22-2216, the Federal Circuit held that patent claims that merely recite result-orientated, functional...more

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The On-Sale Bar Still Applies to the Products of Secret Processes

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CELANESE INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION v. ITC - Before Reyna, Mayer, and Cunningham. Appeal from the International Trade Commission. Summary: Process patent claims are invalid under the on-sale bar (35 U.S.C. § 102(a)(1)) when...more

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Loper Decision Impact on Patent Law

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Venable has offered general thoughts on the potential fallout from the Supreme Court's reversal of the long-standing Chevron deference, as well as practice area-specific analysis. Here, the Intellectual Property Litigation...more

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Chevron Overruled, but PTAB Likely to Emerge Unscathed

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Administrative agencies long enjoyed deference from the courts under Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U.S. 837 (1984). Chevron required courts to give leeway to agencies interpreting...more

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What’s New in Director Review? Lessons From the Delegated Rehearing Panel’s First Decisions

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The Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) established the interim process for Director Review of Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) decisions in the wake of the Supreme Court’s 2021 decision in...more

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Purdue Pharma L.P. v. Collegium Pharmaceutical, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2023)

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One of the many changes introduced into U.S. patent law by the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act were provisions for post-grant review (PGR) and inter partes review (IPR).  There have been thousands of these proceedings...more

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What Patent Bills Would Mean for Infringement Litigation

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Two bills recently introduced in Congress could significantly affect the current patent litigation landscape. The bipartisan bills are titled the Patent Eligibility Restoration Act of 2023 and the Promoting and Respecting...more

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Supreme Court Decides Not To Review PTAB Estoppel Issue

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The Supreme Court will not consider a challenge to the proper scope of AIA statutory estoppel, leaving the Federal Circuit’s governing interpretation in place. The Court’s June 26, 2023 order list denied the pending petition...more

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Latest Federal Court Cases - August 2022 #4

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This week, we provide extensive write-ups about two consequential decisions issued by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit concerning two procedural issues under the America Invents Act (“AIA”), both...more

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Latest Federal Court Cases - May 2022 #4

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Arthrex, Inc. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc., Appeal No. 2018-2140 (Fed. Cir. May 27, 2022) In a return to the Federal Circuit, this case again sets precedent concerning Patent Office Director review of Patent Trial and Appeal Board...more

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Federal Circuit Appeals from the PTAB and ITC: Summaries of Key 2021 Decisions

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[co-author: Jamie Dohopolski] Last year, the continued global COVID-19 pandemic forced American courts to largely continue the procedures set in place in 2020. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit was no...more

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PTAB’s Structure and Funding Pass Due Process Muster

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On October 13, in Mobility Workx v. Unified Patents, LLC, the Federal Circuit rejected a series of due process challenges to the structure of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), leaving the PTAB to continue with...more

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Supreme Court Finds Constitutional Violation in Patent Challenges, But Provides Quick Fix

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For those familiar with inter partes review—or IPR, as it is known—the recent Supreme Court decision in U.S. v. Arthrex was much anticipated because it carried with it the potential to upend the entire IPR system. IPR has...more

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Arthrex SCOTUS Ruling: The IPR Show Must Go On, Just with (a Bit) More Oversight

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On Monday, in a highly-anticipated decision, a fractured Supreme Court issued its opinion in United States v. Arthrex, et al., striking a portion of the America Invents Act (AIA) as unconstitutional—but providing an...more

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IPR>>IRL - A brief guide to the essentials of inter partes reviews in real life. Post-Grant Patent Law Practice

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In 2011, Congress passed the America Invents Act, which replaced the inter partes reexamination process with inter partes review (IPR). The IPR procedure was intended to streamline disputes by, among other things, shortening...more

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Oral Argument in Minerva Surgical Inc. v. Hologic, Inc.

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The Supreme Court heard oral argument last week in Minerva Surgical Inc. v. Hologic, Inc. over the issue of assignor estoppel. As a reminder, the case arose in an infringement suit over U.S. Patent Nos. 6,782,183 and...more

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U.S. v. Arthrex: Supreme Court Oral Argument

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The Supreme Court heard argument on Monday in U.S. v. Arthrex, involving the question of whether appointment of Administrative Patent Judges (APJs) and their authority under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act violates the...more

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Federal Circuit Appeals from the PTAB and ITC: Summaries of Key 2020 Decisions: Thryv, Inc. v. Click-To-Call Technologies, Inc.,...

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In Thryv, Inc v. Click-To-Call Technologies, LP, 140 S. Ct. 1367 (2020), the Supreme Court held that patent owners cannot appeal determinations by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board declining to apply the time bar of 35 U.S.C....more

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PTO: Board to Align Indefiniteness Approach in AIA and District Court Proceedings

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On January 6, 2021, US Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) Director Andrei Iancu, Commissioner for Patents Andrew Hirshfeld and Chief Administrative Patent Judge Scott Boalick issued a memorandum to the members of the Patent...more

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Thryv Inc. v. Click-to-call Technologies LP

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The question of whether the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals has any right to examine a decision of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) to institute inter partes review or post...more

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Last Week in the Federal Circuit (August 31-September 4): Same-Party Joinder Still Not Thryv-ing

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Last week was September Court week, marking the unofficial end of summer for Federal Circuit practitioners. The Court issued a total of 25 decisions, including 8 Rule 36 summary affirmances in cases argued last week, as well...more

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Orders of Interest Roundup

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At Federal Circuitry blog, we like to check in once in a while on what the Federal Circuit is doing in its orders that don’t get posted on the public website. Those orders often offer nuggets about practice at the Federal...more

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Most Notable Patent Decisions in the First Half of 2020

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In the first half of 2020, several notable decisions further shaped the course of patent law, with rulings from the Supreme Court and Federal Circuit impacting PTAB proceedings, as described below...more

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Arthrex Files Certiorari Petition in Arthrex case (Second Petition)

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Arthrex recently filed a(nother) certiorari petition with the Supreme Court, this time in Arthrex, Inc. v. Smith & Nephew, Inc., which has also been the subject of petitions from the U.S. government and Smith & Nephew.  (This...more

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