In Facebook, Inc. v. Windy City Innovations, LLC, No. 2018-1400 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 4, 2020), the Federal Circuit in a re-issued opinion maintained its holding that the text of 35 U.S.C. § 315(c) does not authorize same-party or new issue joinder to an existing IPR but modified the opinion to further expand on the Court’s authority to review the Board’s joinder decision. For more detailed analysis of this case and its impact on post-grant…

Many patent owners are interested in trying to draft a single patent application that will serve them in several countries. This is ambitious, since there are many differences between various countries’ patent systems, but perhaps not impossible. The patent drafter just needs to be aware of and try to balance all the different requirements in the single patent application. This series of articles endeavors to outline some important considerations when drafting a single patent application…