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1 week ago | 
jdsupra.com | Dion Bregman |Theodore Rand |Alexander Stein
USPTO Acting Director Coke Morgan Stewart recently issued a decision discretionarily denying five petitions for inter partes review (IPR) filed by iRhythm against patents owned by Welch Allyn based on a factor that had not been used before—the petitioner’s longstanding awareness of an issued patent.
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1 week ago | 
morganlewis.com | Theodore Rand |Alexander Stein |Dion Bregman
USPTO Acting Director Coke Morgan Stewart recently issued a decision discretionarily denying five petitions for inter partes review (IPR) filed by iRhythm against patents owned by Welch Allyn based on a factor that had not been used before—the petitioner’s longstanding awareness of an issued patent.
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2 months ago | 
morganlewis.com | Tawni Lisseth Henderson |jacob peterson |Alexander Stein |Dion Bregman
The USPTO has launched a sweeping recalibration of its post-grant proceedings at the PTAB, signaling a decisive pivot back toward discretionary denials of patent challenges.
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Jan 27, 2025 | 
jdsupra.com | Conor J Ball |Dion Bregman |Alexander Stein
On January 14, 2025, the Federal Circuit in Lynk Labs Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Dion Bregman |Rachna Ram |Alexander Stein
The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) implemented 37 CFR § 42.75 on October 31, 2024, establishing a formal framework for Director Review of Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) proceedings. During her tenure, Director Kathi Vidal has actively worked to promulgate formal rules to permanently adopt existing interim, pilot, or other informal procedures at the PTAB.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
morganlewis.com | Dion Bregman |Alexander Stein |Rachna Ram
The US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) implemented 37 CFR § 42.75 on October 31, 2024, establishing a formal framework for Director Review of Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) proceedings. During her tenure, Director Kathi Vidal has actively worked to promulgate formal rules to permanently adopt existing interim, pilot, or other informal procedures at the PTAB.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Dion Bregman |Ezra D. Church |Andrew Gray IV
August 2, 2024
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The European Union’s new AI Act (the Act) went into efect on 1 August 2024.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Dion Bregman |Theodore Rand |Alexander Stein
In a recent opinion, the Federal Circuit added several new wrinkles to amendment practice in inter partesreview proceedings. The court affirmed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s determination that most of the original claims challenged by an IPR were unpatentable as obvious, and reversed the Board’s determination as to the sole surviving claim, concluding that it too was unpatentable as obvious.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
morganlewis.com | Theodore Rand |Alexander Stein |Dion Bregman
In a recent opinion, the Federal Circuit added several new wrinkles to amendment practice in inter partesreview proceedings. The court affirmed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s determination that most of the original claims challenged by an IPR were unpatentable as obvious, and reversed the Board’s determination as to the sole surviving claim, concluding that it too was unpatentable as obvious.
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Jul 5, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Dion Bregman |Julie Goldemberg |Meaghan H. Kent
The US Supreme Court’s June 28, 2024 decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and Relentless Inc. v. Department of Commerce overruled the forty-year-old Chevron U.S.A. Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council Inc. decision, one of the most-cited cases in US law. This development will have far-reaching impacts, and for intellectual property (IP) law specifically, it could significantly affect how the Court approaches US International Trade Commission (ITC) litigation.
