Category: Post Grant Review
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SAP v. Versata: First Covered Business Method PTAB Trial Tests New AIA Trial Provisions
The first ever covered business method patent review stems from a patent litigation between Versata and SAP over two Versata patents relating to pricing products in mulitlevel product and organizational groups. The district court action began in 2007 when Versata sued SAP for alleged infringement of its U.S. Patent Nos. 6,553,350 and 5,878,400 (Versata Software,…
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Petitions to PTAB at Three Months into AIA Post-Grant Patent Trials
This blog post is at three months past September 16, 2012, the date upon which the PTAB began accepting petitions for inter partes review and covered business method patent review under the America Invents Act. Considering that there are about 15 CBM and 79 IPR petitions currently on file, the PTAB is getting petitions at the rate of roughly…
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PTAB Provides Convenient Access to Instructive Orders, Notices, and Decisions
The Patent Trial and Appeals Board has provided a web page that compiles instructive orders, notices, and decisions. This is a handy reference site for practitioners to learn from decisions made in various covered business method (CBM), inter partes reviews (IPR) and post-grant review (PGR) proceedings.
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Pro Hac Vice Admission Denied in SAP v. Versata CBM Patent Review
My prior post described the pro hac vice admission dispute between SAP and Versata Development Group in PTAB matter CBM2012-00001. The PTAB wasted no time and issued an order denying the motion for pro hac vice admission of Versata’s litigation trial counsel on November 6, 2012. The PTAB essentially found that Versata failed to demonstrate…
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Steady Stream of AIA Post-Issuance Review Petitions Filed in PTAB
It has been a little over one month since post grant patent reviews were authorized by the AIA and the Patent Office Patent Review Processing System (PRPS) shows about 47 petitions on file in the PTAB. Look at it this way to put things in perspective: The 47 petitions filed over this past month are…
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PTAB PRPS Trials Portal Gets Software Improvements
The PTAB PRPS Trials Portal just got better. If you login to the system (depending on what browser you are using), you will see that PRPS now provides much better access to all public documents in each case. This upgrade replaces the more clunkier version of the website and allows for ready access to the…
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New Petitions Filed for AIA Inter Partes Reviews and Covered Business-Method Patent Reviews
Based on a today’s count, the PTAB Patent Review Processing System (PRPS) is now showing 34 petitions for patent review. There are 10 pending petitions for covered business-method (CBM) patent review and 24 petitions for inter partes review (IPR). What is confusing is that the PRPS system is assigning Trial Numbers that have changed from…
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Parallel Litigation and PTAB Review Create Complex Interplay of Patentability and Validity
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in America Invents Act, Broadest Reasonable Interpretation standard, claim challenges, Claim Construction, clear and convincing evidence, covered business methods, indefiniteness, Litigation, motion practice, Patent Reform, patent-eligible subject matter, Phillips-type construction, Post Grant Review, preponderance of evidence, PTAB, statutory subject matterA company called CoreLogic Solutions, LLC owns U.S. Patent No. 5,361,201, relating to a process for appraising real estate property. The ‘201 patent was filed on Oct. 19, 1992 and issued on Nov. 1, 1994. Absent some kind of patent term extension, the ‘201 patent will expire soon. The ‘201 patent is the subject of both a litigation and a covered…
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Liberty Mutual Covered Business Method Patent Review Petition Tailored to Address Prior Art “Mischaracterized” During Reexamination
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in America Invents Act, Broadest Reasonable Interpretation standard, claim challenges, Claim Construction, correcting reexamination using post-issuance review, covered business methods, inequitable conduct, inter partes review, Litigation, Patent Reform, Phillips-type construction, Post Grant Review, reexamination generallyLiberty Mutual Insurance filed two more covered business method (CBM) patent review petitions dated September 29. The petitions both relate to U.S. Pat. No. 7,124,088 owned by Progressive Casualty Insurance, that relates to an on-line insurance policy service system as recited in claim 1 of the reexamined patent: 1. An on-line insurance policy service system…