Category Archives: Appeal

GE’s “purported competitive injuries” found not to provide standing to appeal IPR

Posted on July 18, 2019 by

General Electric Company (GE) v. United Technologies Corporation (UTC) Docket No. 2017-2497 (IPR2016-00531) REYNA, TARANTO, HUGHES July 10, 2019 Brief Summary: GE appealed Board IPR finding claims 7-11 of UTC’s US 8,511,605 relating to gear fan gas turbine engines not … Continue reading →

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Click-To-Call Technologies, LP v. Ingenio, Inc. et al.

Posted on August 29, 2018 by

Click-To-Call Technologies, LP v. Ingenio, Inc. et al. Docket No. 2015-1242 (IPR2013-00312) O’Malley, Taranto, Stark (with en banc footnote 3) August 16, 2018 Brief summary: Board’s decision that § 315(b) one-year time bar does not apply where earlier complaint was … Continue reading →

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Luminara Worldwide, LLC. vs. USPTO

Posted on August 27, 2018 by

Docket No. 2018-1629, -1631, -1633 IPR2015-01352, -10656, -01657, -01658 LOURIE, DYK, TARANTO August 16, 2018 Brief summary: Board finding that § 315(b) time-bar (IPR must be filed within one year of complaint servce) vacated as the bar applies to complaint … Continue reading →

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In re: Power Integrations, Inc.

Posted on August 24, 2018 by

Docket No. 2018-144, -145, -146, -147 IPR2017-01903, -01904, -01944, -01975 O’MALLEY, BRYSON, CHEN August 16, 2018 Brief summary: PI’s petitions petitions for a writ of mandamus challenging the PTAB’s decisions denying institution of IPRs of three patents denied (“this court … Continue reading →

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BioDelivery Sciences Int., Inc. v. Aquestive Therapeutics, Inc. et al. (USPTO as Intervenor)

Posted on August 3, 2018 by

Docket No. 2017-1265-68 (IPR2015-00165, -00168, -00169) NEWMAN, LOURIE, REYNA July 31, 2018 Brief summary: BioDelivery’s requests for remand under SAS because the PTAB instituted IPRs on less than all asserted grounds granted and the PTAB’s FWDs were vacated. Summary: BioDelivery … Continue reading →

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PGS Geophysical AS v. USPTO

Posted on June 15, 2018 by

Docket No. 2016-2470, -2472, -2474 (IPR2015-00309, -00310, -0311) WALLACH, TARANTO, STOLL June 7, 2018 Brief summary: PTAB decision of obviousness affirmed. PTAB decision to only review certain claims and grounds included in IPR Petition not to be error in view … Continue reading →

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In re: Timothy D. Durance, et al.

Posted on June 7, 2018 by

Docket No. 2017-1486 LOURIE, REYNA, CHEN June 1, 2018 Brief summary: PTAB affirmance of examiner’s obviousness rejection vacated and remanded due to the examiner’s and PTAB’s “multiple shifting articulations” of the rejections. Summary: Mr. Durance et al. appealed PTAB decision … Continue reading →

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