The USPTO has made precedential a recent PTAB decision, Penumbra, Inc. v. RapidPulse, Inc., where the PTAB reaffirmed the USPTO's existing position that Dynamic Drinkware does not apply to AIA patents.
Today, the Director of the U.S. Patent Office designated the final written decision in Penumbra, Inc. v. RapidPulse, Inc., IPR2021-01466, Paper 34 (March 10, 2023) precedential as to.
USPTO Director Kathi Vidal today designated as precedential a Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision from March of this year that held a precedential Federal Circuit ruling on prior art determinations for provisional patent applications applies only to pre-America Invents Act (AIA) patents.
/PRNewswire/ RapidPulse, Inc., a privately-held medical device company developing a novel aspiration system to treat ischemic stroke, today announced that.