Ways to Amend the Claims in the Patent Invalidation Proceedings
The Federal Circuit has affirmed two decisions of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB or Board) that upheld some claims of a patent owned by Personal Genomics Taiwan, Inc. (PGI) and invalidated other claims. Pacific...more
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) has published its new Final Rule on the standard of review used in construing challenged patent claims in the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”). ...more
Priority Claims Cannot Be Incorporated by Reference - In Vanda Pharmaceuticals Inc. v. West-Ward Pharmaceuticals International Limited, Appeal Nos. 2016-2707 and 2016-2708, the Federal Circuit held that when a patent for a...more