Category: United States Patent & Trademark Office
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USPTO Director again discretionarily denies IPR over petitioner’s purported links to Chinese state
John A. Squires has already nixed several IPRs on the grounds that petitioners had failed to name “real-parties-in-interest” that may be ineligible foreign governments.
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University of Washington DNA sequencing patent at center of $245M damages award survives second PTAB run
Guardant Health petitioned for IPR of the patent in response to a district court infringement complaint brought by the university and TwinStrand Biosciences.
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Valtrus patent upheld by Federal Circuit after Google challenges Word doc metadata as pre-AIA invention proof
Automatically generated metadata can independently corroborate inventor testimony, the panel opined.
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U.S. Supreme Court denies Google cert petition challenging USPTO’s settled expectations denials
Three other petitions for writ of certiorari, similarly questioning the agency’s validity review denials, are pending before the court.
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Dolby, MediaTek bought 40% of video codec patent families that changed hands in the U.S. over six months: USPTO records analysis
A review of recent USPTO assignment records shows Alibaba, LG, and OP Solutions selling video codec patents while Dolby, MediaTek, and licensing entities bought, in some cases, expired patents.
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Via annual Bridge Summit to focus on AI licensing
Via Licensing Alliance’s fourth-ever annual Bridge Summit, due to take place next week, will feature AI infrastructure and data center licensing discussions throughout its conference, as well as licensor meetings dedicated to its newly launched DRAM pool.
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iPhone Duo: two long-running Apple patent families and a Liechtenstein priority filing
Apple’s iPhone Duo arrives with a long paper trail: a 2011 patent naming CEO John Ternus as inventor, a 2015 family whose foldable claims issued five months before launch, and an iPhone Duo trademark filed first in Liechtenstein in March.
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Patent owner asks USPTO Director to terminate Google-triggered reexam, points to pattern of 21 do-overs after failed IPRs
A patent owner has asked the USPTO Director to end a Google-triggered reexam, citing a pattern in which Google filed at least 21 ex parte reexams after losing IPR challenges.
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Maxell acquires TCL patents following settlement of district court litigation and ITC complaint; initiates new Hisense suit
The Japanese company is also locked in an ongoing dispute with Samsung.
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Former USPTO deputy director Coke Stewart on C4IP President appointment
“There is a concern that the pendulum is swinging back and forth from one director to another, or one administration to another. While there isn’t an agreement on what the reforms should be, there is consensus that the changes need to be permanent, and I can better do that from the outside,” Ms. Stewart told…