In a rehearing decision issued by a Delegated Rehearing Panel specially convened by the US Patent & Trademark Office (PTO) Director, the Patent Trial & Appeal Board vacated a prior panel decision denying institution, modified...more
An August 2023 decision from the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals highlighted potential new fragilities in the patent portfolios of many industry giants, especially those in the pharmaceutical industry....more
Federal Circuit Hands Down Modified Opinion in Illumina, Inc. v. Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc. Earlier this year, the Federal Circuit (somewhat surprisingly) found claims of two Sequenom patents directed to methods for...more
Reconsideration leads to a reversal of course regarding a key claim limitation. On October 26, 2017, in Hospira, Inc. v. Genentech, Inc., the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) granted Hospira’s request for rehearing and...more
In June of this year, the Federal Circuit panel in Ariosa Diagnostics, Inc. v. Sequenom, Inc. invalidated a patent on the grounds of patent-ineligible subject matter. 788 F.3d 1371 (Fed. Cir. 2015). While the case is one of...more