October 20, 2020
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, along with Apple, Google and other tech giants, have urged a California federal judge to reject an inventor group's "sweeping" request to temporarily ban the Patent Trial and Appeal Board from launching new reviews until it completes a formal rulemaking process.
October 13, 2020
Inventor group U.S. Inventor has told a judge that its bid to force the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to set rules enshrining a practice of refusing to review patents when a district court trial is looming is not an attempt to "hijack" a suit by Apple and others challenging the practice.
September 29, 2020
Inventor group U.S. Inventor has asked a California federal judge to temporarily ban the Patent Trial and Appeal Board from launching new reviews until it completes a formal rulemaking process to determine when the board has discretion to deny review.
September 15, 2020
U.S. Inventor and other inventor groups have asked to step into a lawsuit that Google, Apple and other tech giants have brought over the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's practice of denying review when a trial is looming in district court.
September 03, 2020
Apple, Cisco, Google and Intel's lawsuit challenging a certain Patent Trial and Appeal Board precedent will test how far the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's discretion stretches when it comes to instituting inter partes reviews.
August 31, 2020
Apple, Cisco, Google and Intel on Monday challenged Patent Trial and Appeal Board precedent allowing judges to skip instituting inter partes reviews based on pending district court litigation, saying it undermines the America Invents Act and was illegally implemented.