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Jan 3, 2025 | 
goodmenproject.com | Matthew Johnson
A Madman’s New Year’s ResolutionsI’m so happy to say goodbye to 2024, that I’m making a commitment to improve in five ways. January 3, 2025 by Matthew Johnson Leave a Comment I don’t do this every year—or even any year—but I’m so happy to say goodbye to 2024, that I’m making a commitment to improve in five ways. For the record, New Year’s Resolutions are horsesh*t.
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Jul 13, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Matthew Johnson |Daniel Sloan
On May 6th, 2024, the PTAB declined Ubiquiti Inc.'s
("Petitioner's") request to institute inter partes
review. Ubiquiti Inc. v. XR Communications LLC D/B/A Vivato
Tech., IPR2024-00148, Paper 12 (May 6, 2024). The PTAB simultaneously denied Petitioner's
Motion for Leave to File Motion to Reopen inter partes review,
Petitioner's Motion to Waive the Time Limit for Filing a Motion
for Joinder, and Petitioner's Motion for Joinder.
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Feb 29, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Sabrina Bellantoni |Matthew Johnson
Recently, the Patent Trial and Appeals Board ("PTAB")
granted a request for rehearing of a decision that
denied an institution of inter partes review and then instituted a
trial on all the challenged claims on all the grounds raised by the
Petitioner regarding a patent for a cladribine regimen for treating
multiple sclerosis. TWi Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Merck
Serono SA, IPR2023-00049, Paper 15 (December 20, 2023).
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Matthew Johnson |Sabrina Bellantoni
Recently, the Patent Trial and Appeals Board (“PTAB”) granted a request for rehearing of a decision that denied an institution of inter partes review and then instituted a trial on all the challenged claims on all the grounds raised by the Petitioner regarding a patent for a cladribine regimen for treating multiple sclerosis. TWi Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. Merck Serono SA, IPR2023-00049, Paper 15 (December 20, 2023).
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Dec 3, 2023 | 
research.rabobank.com | Matthew Johnson
Investing in the continuing modernisation of Turkey’s dairy market could be a challenge and an opportunity. What is the developing dairy potential in the Turkish domestic market and growing export markets?
The supply is the limit
Turkey’s future is exciting, complex and has become increasingly interesting to global dairy players.
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Oct 26, 2023 | 
lexology.com | Matthew Johnson |Evan Jones
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board held all challenged claims of IGT’s patent unpatentable as obvious over two prior art patents. Zynga Inc. v. IGT, IPR2022-00199-32. In doing so, the PTAB further held that, contrary to IGT’s position, there was no interference estoppel. The patent at issue, U.S. Patent No. 7,168,089 (“the ’089 patent”), relates to gaming machines and methods for securing communications for transferring gaming software and information between a gaming machine and a gaming server.
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Oct 25, 2023 | 
yesweekly.com | Matthew Johnson
GREENSBORO, NC (10/25/2023) Greensboro College will host the Ukraine Women's National Wrestling Team November 16-20. Winners of the 2022 United World Women's Freestyle Wrestling World Cup, the team is currently spending two months in the United States promoting the sport and sharing the struggles the country is facing at home. Founded in 1838 as a college for women, Greensboro College is also the first institution in North Carolina to offer women's NCAA wrestling at the intercollegiate level.
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Oct 6, 2023 | 
mondaq.com | Matthew Johnson
Institution of an IPR is automatically barred if the
"petition requesting the proceeding is filed more than 1 year
after the date on which the petitioner...is served with the
complaint alleging infringement of the patent." 35 U.S.C.
§ 315(b). In a recent PTAB case, a patent owner's
defective service of the related district court pleading on a
petitioner prevented trigger of the one-year statutory time bar on
IPR filings. See Lightricks Ltd. v. Plotograph,
Inc., IPR2023-00153, September 5, 2023.
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Oct 4, 2023 | 
lexology.com | Matthew Johnson
Institution of an IPR is automatically barred if the “petition requesting the proceeding is filed more than 1 year after the date on which the petitioner…is served with the complaint alleging infringement of the patent.” 35 U.S.C. § 315(b). In a recent PTAB case, a patent owner’s defective service of the related district court pleading on a petitioner prevented trigger of the one-year statutory time bar on IPR filings. See Lightricks Ltd. v. Plotograph, Inc., IPR2023-00153, September 5, 2023.
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Sep 11, 2023 | 
lexology.com | Matthew Johnson
The PTAB recently declined to apply Section 325(d) and instituted inter partes review after a patent owner unsuccessfully argued that the petition relied on substantially the same prior art as that which the Office had previously considered, becausethe new art shared inventorship and involved similar technology. Geotab USA, Inc. et al v. Omega Patents, LLC, IPR2023-00504, Paper No. 11 (PTAB July 25, 2023). Geotab USA, Inc.
