On August 27, 2018, the Federal Circuit in Ericsson Inc. v. Intellectual Ventures I LLC, vacated the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (“PTAB”) final written decision in an inter partes review (IPR) and remanded for the PTAB to properly consider all portions of the petitioner’s reply. No. 17-1521, slip op. at 13 (Aug. 27, 2018).
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Federal Circuit overturns PTAB: catalog distributed at a trade show found to be publicly available prior art
By Emily J. Greb on
On July 27, 2018, in GoPro, Inc., v. Contour IP Holdings LLC, the Federal Circuit overturned the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) in its most recent decision on what constitutes publicly available prior art. In GoPro the Court held that a catalog distributed at a trade show open only to dealers was publicly available prior art.
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Federal Circuit Rejects Importing Claim Limitation in Blackbird Tech LLC v. ELB Electronics, Inc.
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Posted in Claim Construction, Federal Circuit
Blackbird Tech LLC sued ELB Electronics for infringing a patent claim related to retrofitting existing light fixtures with a more energy-efficient lighting apparatus. Blackbird Tech LLC v. ELB Electronics, Inc., No. 17-1703, slip op. at 3 (Fed. Cir. July 16, 2018). The asserted claim read as follows:
FDA Advisory Committee Materials Determined to be Publicly Available Prior Art
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On July 13, 2018, in Jazz Pharms., Inc. v. Amneal Pharms., LLC, (Case Nos. 2017-1617, -1673, -1674, -1675, -1676, -1677, -2075), the Federal Circuit affirmed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (“PTAB”) holding that certain FDA advisory meeting minutes, transcripts, and slides were publicly available such that the materials constituted prior art. We have previously discussed the PTAB’s public availability jurisprudence in Coalition for Affordable Drugs VIII, LLC v. The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, IPR2015-01835 where the PTAB held a presentation given to investors was not prior art.
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Did the AIA Change the On-Sale Bar Standard? The Supreme Court Will Decide.
By Maria A. Stubbings on
The “on-sale bar” deems that certain sales of an invention that occur more than one year before a patent application is filed are a bar to patentability. See 35 U.S.C. § 102(b) (pre-America Invents Act (“AIA”)); 35 U.S.C. § 102(a)(1) (AIA). On Monday, June 25, 2018, the Supreme Court granted Helsinn’s petition for certiorari in Helsinn Healthcare S.A. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., to interpret the on-sale bar provision of 35 U.S.C. § 102 in the AIA. Helsinn Healthcare S.A. v. Teva Pharm. USA, Inc., — S. Ct. —, 2018 WL 1142984 (2018) [SCOTUSblog case file]. The question presented to the Supreme Court is: “Whether, under the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, an inventor’s sale of an invention to a third party that is obligated to keep the invention confidential qualifies as prior art for purposes of determining the patentability of the invention.” Petition for Certiorari, Helsinn Healthcare S.A. v. Teva Pharm. USA, Inc., No. 17-1229, 2018 WL 1168243 (Feb. 28, 2018).
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