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Obviousness
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PTABWatch
Teaching Away for Dummies
In Meiresonne v. Google, Inc., No. 2016-1755 (Fed. Cir. Mar. 7, 2017), the Federal Circuit affirmed the PTAB’s final written decision in IPR2014-01188 that the challenged claims in U.S. Patent…
PTAB Law Blog
How Many References Is Too Many for Challenging a Patent on Obviousness?
By Soumya P. Panda, Mark T. Rawls, Caitlin M. Wilmot
The PTAB does not appear to have weighed in, one way or another, on the question of how many references is too many for an obviousness challenge under 35 U.S.C.…
PTABWatch
Secondary Considerations of Non-obviousness Retain Some Vigor
IPR 2015-01651 involved a dispute over the obviousness of claims in U.S. Patent No. 8,551,271 owned by Crown Packaging Technology, Inc. and drawn to a grooved crown bottle cap with…
Prosecution First Blog
In re Ethicon: Connecting Seemingly Unrelated Dots May Support An Obviousness Conclusion
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Prosecution First Blog
In re Ethicon: Connecting Seemingly Unrelated Dots May Support An Obviousness Conclusion
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PTABWatch
Federal Circuit Finds Portion of Board’s Obviousness Decision Supported
In Slot Speaker Techs., Inc. v. Apple Inc., Nos. 2015-2038, 2015-2039 (Fed. Cir. February 17, 2017) (non-prec.), the Federal Circuit affirmed a portion of the PTAB’s decision in an IPR…
PTABWatch
Federal Circuit Affirms Cancellation of Claims Based on Analogous Art
In Unwired Planet, LLC v. Google Inc., the Federal Circuit affirmed the PTAB’s IPR decision that the challenged claims are invalid as obvious and dismissed the PTAB’s CBM review as…
Intellectual Property Law Blog
You’re So Vague: Federal Circuit Sends IPR Decision Back to PTAB for More Thorough Analysis
In a precedential decision, the Federal Circuit reaffirmed that the Patent Trial and Appeal’s Board (PTAB) is required to explicitly state motivations to combine prior-art references in claim rejections for…
IP Intelligence
When Obvious Isn’t Obvious: Personal Web Technologies
On Valentine’s Day 2017, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s conclusions of obviousness in Personal Web Technologies, LLC due to insufficient…
Intellectual Property Law Blog
Suing The United States Government For Patent Infringement And Defending Against A Claim Of Obviousness
By Amy Harwath, Bradley Graveline
A patentee may bring patent infringement claims against the United States government pursuant to 28 U.S.C. § 1498, in which Congress waived the sovereign immunity of the United States against…