Category: Patent Trial & Appeal Board
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Samsung ordered to pay $445 million in U.S. wireless standards-related infringement dispute: jury verdict
The Eastern District of Texas has issued a jury verdict ordering Samsung to pay over $445 million in damages for infringing four of non-practising entity Collissionâs wireless communication standard-essential patents.
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Squires on fire: revived patent post-PTAB, declared expert unreliable, took procedural route that may have closed door to appeal
Based on an expert’s lack of credibility in his eyes, Director Squires not only terminated the PTAB proceedings without a remand but also made it difficult (or impossible) to appeal,
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Federal Circuit partly grants Bayer second chance in defending rivaroxaban patent invalidation campaign
The Federal Circuit has partly affirmed and partly vacated a United States Patent and Trademark Officeâs Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision that deemed one of Bayerâs rivaroxaban-related patents invalid, in a three-year case initiated by rivals Mylan Pharmaceuticals, Teva Pharmaceuticals, and Invagen Pharmaceuticals.
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USPTO divisionsâ clash over Apple patent invalidation decision undermines âintegrity and consistencyâ, patentee alleges
A petition filed by Proxense against Apple has uncovered an inconsistency in results on substantially similar issues and the same underlying facts between decisions by the United States Patent & Trademark Officeâs Patent Trial and Appeal Board and fellow internal division, the Central Reexamination Unit.
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USPTO issues more discretionary denials: Intel, Google, Nokia, Ericsson among losing petitioners
The significant inter partes review denials come less than a month after a Unified Patents report found the number of such decisions is three times higher than those under Director Andrei Iancu in 2020.
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USPTO on pace to quadruple discretionary denials under new interim procedures, report says
Recent data by Unified Patents has found that there were three times more United States Patent & Trademark Officeâs Patent Trial and Appeal Board discretionary denial decisions in Q1 2025 than the last record number of decisions (167 in 2020).
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Pendulum swings back in favor of Fintiv in payment-system patent infringement dispute with Apple
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has reversed a Western District of Texas grant of summary judgment in a dispute between Fintiv and Apple, reviving Fintiv’s infringement claims and remanding them for trial.
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Federal Circuit hands victories to Apple, PayPal in parallel payment-system patent infringement disputes with Fintiv
The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has thrown out an appeal against a Patent Trial and Appeal Board invalidation decision brought by Fintiv against Apple, after the same patent was already invalidated in a parallel case against PayPal.
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Supercomputer firm ParTec seeks discretionary denial of Microsoft’s PTAB IPR petition under Acting USPTO Director’s new bifurcated framework
A dispute over the architecture of server clusters used for AI could give rise to one of the first high-profile discretionary denials under Acting Director Coke Morgan Stewart’s new rules.
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Discretionary denials of PTAB inter partes reviews come back with a vengeance: Fintiv review inserted before potential merits proceedings
Within four weeks of her decision to rescind former USPTO Director Kathi Vidal’s memo narrowing the application of Fintiv, Acting Director Coke Morgan Stewart has taken another bold step favoring patentees.