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PTAB Updates and Expands the Director Review Process and Offers Transparency in Ex Parte Appeals

By Sandip H. Patel on August 15, 2023 Posted in Ex Parte, Institution / Denial, Inter Partes Review, IPR, Post Grant Review, Reexamination, Trial Procedures, Uncategorized

After the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Arthrex, Inc., the Patent Office implemented an interim process for the Director to review Patent Trial and Appeal Board decisions in AIA trials. The Office sought public feedback on the process last year (link) and received more than 4,000 responses (link)! The process has yet to … Continue Reading

Federal Circuit Concludes that Reference Qualifies As Prior Art Based on Reply Evidence

By William (Bill) J. Samore on August 27, 2021 Posted in Uncategorized

In VidStream LLC v. Twitter Inc., Appeals 2019-1734, -1735, (Fed. Cir. November 25, 2020), the Federal Circuit affirmed a pair of PTAB inter partes review decisions that determined VidStream’s claims, directed to publishing content on social networking websites, are unpatentable as obvious over a five-way combination of references. Important, in this appeal, was the subsidiary … Continue Reading