The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued updated interim guidance on when the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (Board) may deny review of patents based on parallel litigation, which.
In 2021, an organization of patent owners and various patent-holding companies sued the USPTO in the Eastern District of Texas. The patent owners sought to force the USPTO Director to.
Gen. Plastic Indus. Co. v. Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, IPR2016-01357, Paper 19 (PTAB Sept. 6, 2017), designated precedential in 2017, sets forth seven factors to be considered before.
Patent Trial and Appeal Board judges on Thursday detailed the circumstances under which they will not decline to review patents amid parallel infringement litigation, with new guidance from USPTO Director Kathi Vidal, while stressing the policy may still be refined based on public feedback.
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