I enjoy all aspects of patent law and am always happy to get involved in all kinds of different matters, ranging from district court and ITC litigation, to PTAB proceedings.
In CUPP Computting AS v. Trend Micro, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board need not accept a patent owner’s arguments as a disclaimer in the very same inter partes review proceeding in which those arguments are made.
Repeating a conclusion from an earlier non-precedential opinion in VirnetX, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held that the Patent Trial & Appeal Board (Board) need not.
A weekly summary of the precedential patent-related opinions issued by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the opinions designated precedential or informative by the Patent.
Some of you may remember the Federal Circuit’s decision from a few (actually 5!) years ago holding that patent owner statements made in an IPR proceeding may “support a finding of.