Parties in inter partes review proceedings often dispute whether a reply to a patent owner response is truly responsive or instead an attempt to introduce new arguments that are not.
The Federal Circuit reviewed the latest decision from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) in an inter partes review that claims 3-6 and 10 of U.S. Patent No. 6,548,019 are obvious,.
When Caren Mason in 2014 joined Staar Surgical Co. as a member of its board of directors, the ophthalmological-focused medical device company faced several large problems.