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Patent Trial and Appeal Board Patent Infringement Joinder

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Termination of IPR Proceeding on the Eve of Final Written Decision Dooms Joinder Attempt

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has denied institution and joinder of an inter partes review petition after determining that the petition was not only time-barred but that joinder was also foreclosed. In making its...more

Erise IP

Eye on IPRs, March 2024: PTAB’s Claim Construction of Cooling Patent is Hot Issue, SCOTUS Won’t Hear IPR Joinder Challenge

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Every month, Erise’s patent attorneys review the latest inter partes review cases and news to bring you the stories that you should know about: Cooling Patent Restored by Federal Circuit Over PTAB’s Claim Construction - ...more

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EYLEA® (aflibercept) and Soliris® (eculizumab) IPR Updates

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On December 8, 2023, the PTAB instituted three of Samsung Bioepis’s pending IPRs against Alexion’s Soliris® (eculizumab), IPR2023-00933, IPR2023-00998, and IPR2023-00999. The challenged patents include composition of matter,...more

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PTAB Applies General Plastic Factors to Serial Petitions Seeking Joinder

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In February 2023, T-Mobile USA, Inc. (“T-Mobile”) filed petitions requesting four inter partes reviews (“the T-Mobile IPRs”)—two of which challenged U.S. Patent No. 8,630,234 and two of which challenged U.S. Patent No....more

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PTAB Denies Joinder Motion Filed More One Month After PGR Institution

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Typically, a Motion for Joinder to an earlier post-grant review (“PGR”) must be filed within one month of the institution of the earlier PGR. 37 C.F.R. § 42.222(b).While the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) does have...more

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Joinder Denied For Petitioner Whose Invalidity Case Was Dismissed With Prejudice

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In the PTAB’s recent decision in Code 200 v. Bright Data Ltd., IPR2021-01503, Paper No. 13 (PTAB Mar. 14, 2022), the PTAB expounded upon the circumstances in which joinder of a “me-too” case under § 315(b) was not...more

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PTAB Strategies and Insights - December 2020: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board Announced Three New...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board has elevated three panel decisions to precedential this month. RPX Corp. v. Applications in Internet Time, LLC, IPR2015-01750, Paper 128 (Oct. 2, 2020)...more

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PTAB Strategies and Insights - December 2020

The PTAB Strategies and Insights newsletter provides timely updates and insights into how best to handle proceedings at the USPTO. It is designed to increase return on investment for all stakeholders looking at the entire...more

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PTAB Designates RPI, Follow-On Petition Cases Precedential

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On December 4th, the PTAB designated the following three cases precedential: RPX Corp. v. Applications in Internet Time, LLC, IPR2015-01750, Paper 128 (Oct. 2, 2020) (precedential) - This decision on remand from the...more

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IP Litigation Quarterly Update: Q3 2020

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In a relatively quiet third quarter of 2020, the Federal Circuit decided issues on joinder, estoppel, claim preclusion, and importantly, upheld the Patent Trial and Appeal Board process finding that cancellation of patent...more

McDermott Will & Emery

Full of Hot Air? PTAB Joinder Decisions Under § 315(c) Are Appealable

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Addressing whether it has jurisdiction to review joinder decisions made by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit reissued a prior decision explaining that a joinder decision...more

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Federal Circuit Has Jurisdiction to Review Joinder Decisions in IPRs

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FACEBOOK, INC., V. WINDY CITY INNOVATIONS LLC Before Prost, Plager, and O’Malley.  Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary:  The Federal Circuit has jurisdiction to review challenges to the Board's joinder...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP - Federal Circuitry

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

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

Sunstein LLP

Court’s Strict Interpretation of Timing Requirement May Force Patent Validity Challenges in Two Forums

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The America Invents Act (“AIA”), signed into law in 2011, introduced inter partes review (“IPR”), which allows parties to challenge the validity of patent claims in proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board...more

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Federal Circuit Says PTAB Joinder Rules Contrary to Law

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The Federal Circuit has ruled in Facebook, Inc. v. Windy City Innovations, LLC that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB) practice of permitting petitioners to join themselves as parties to existing reviews and adding...more

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Facebook, Inc. v. Windy City Innovations, LLC (Fed. Cir. 2020)

It's often said that hard cases make bad law.  And that is what had happened here:  faced with an unreasonable number of potentially asserted claims in litigation, and a Plaintiff not required to identify which of those...more

Holland & Knight LLP

In Facebook v. Windy City Innovations, Federal Circuit Ends Self-Joinder for Already Filed IPRs

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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held in an opinion filed March 18, 2020, that petitioners to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) may not join themselves as a party to their earlier filed inter partes...more

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Should You File A “Copycat” IPR Petition?

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If you don’t have new grounds to add, you may as well copycat. On September 4, 2019, the PTAB denied Microsoft’s petition requesting inter partes review (“IPR”) of U.S. Patent No. 7,167,487 (“the ’487 patent”); furthermore,...more

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Issue Eighteen: PTAB Trial Tracker

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The availability of post-grant proceedings at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) has changed the face of patent litigation. This monthly digest is designed to keep you up-to-date by highlighting interesting PTAB,...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

PTAB: Federal Circuit’s Click-to-Call Holding Applies to Statutory Bar Under 35 U.S.C. § 315(a)

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (the “Board”) vacated its institution decision and terminated an inter partes review (IPR) filed by Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (“Mylan”) based on Mylan’s prior counterclaim seeking a...more

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Precedential PTAB Panel Says Petitioners Can Join Their Own Earlier-Filed IPRs and Join New Issues in Limited Circumstance

In its first decision since its inception, the Precedential Opinion Panel (“POP”) for the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“Board”), in Proppant Express Investments, LLC v. Oren Technologies, LLC, IPR2018-00914, held that...more

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Timely Joinder Cannot Save Untimely IPR When Nothing to Join

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In IPR2017-01054 and IPR2017-01055 (Fresenius Kabi USA, LLC v. Hospira Inc.), the PTAB denied institution of inter partes reviews of U.S. Patent Nos. 8,242,158 and 8,338,470, because Petitioner Fresenius filed the IPR...more

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Issue Eight: PTAB Trial Tracker

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A Surprise Move Designed to Shield Patents from IPR - On September 8, 2017, Allergan announced that it had assigned its patents covering Restasis®, a dry eye treatment with a reported $1.4B in sales last year, to the Saint...more

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Expanded PTO Panels and Improper Joinder: The Federal Circuit Fires a Warning Shot

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The Federal Circuit’s decision in Nidec Motor Corp. v. Zhongshan Broad Ocean Motor Co., (Fed. Cir. No. 16-2321), expresses a growing discomfort with the Patent Office’s practice of joinder and expanded panels....more

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Timing Is Everything: Successful Joinder Motions At The PTAB

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The joinder provisions of inter partes review (IPR) proceedings can be a great tool to circumvent the 1-year IPR filing deadline following service of a complaint for infringement. However, grant of a joinder petition by the...more

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