In Zynga Inc. v. IGT, IPR2022-00199, Paper 17 (Aug. 22, 2022), the Director of the USPTO granted sua sponte Director review and affirmed the decision granting Zynga's inter partes review ("IPR") petition.
The Federal Circuit has rejected a constitutional challenge of the USPTO's practice of excluding Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) institution decisions from its director review process.
New details have come to light in a dispute over allegations of gamesmanship in inter partes reviews filed by two third-party challengers, OpenSky Industries and Patent Quality Assurance, against VLSI Technology LLC.
I have a life sciences litigation practice with a focus on patent contentious proceedings (PTAB, district court, and on appeal to the Federal Circuit). Since the beginning of my career.
USPTO Director Vidal is initiating sua sponte review of the PTAB decisions to institute inter partes review of two patents owned by VLSI Technology LLC, for which over $2 billion of infringement damages were recently awarded against Intel.