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November 4, 2020

Descriptive Use of a Registered Trademark is not Infringement

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October 9, 2020

Proper IP Management Gives Pet Food Manufacturers a Competitive Edge

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September 25, 2020

Finding Claims Non-obvious Was Not Error, It Was the Application of the Proper Evidentiary Standard

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September 24, 2020

IPR Estoppel: It’s Not A Second Bite at the Apple if You Didn’t Get a First Bite

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September 17, 2020

Like a Phoenix (Digitally) Arising from the Ashes: Newly Digitized 1837-1847 U.S. Patents

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September 5, 2020

§315(c) Does Not Allow Board to Join IPRs or to Add Issues to an IPR via Joinder

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August 31, 2015

PTAB Finds Copyright Notice is Inadmissible Hearsay – Denies Petition for IPR

By: Matthew L. Cutler, Principal

July 1, 2015

Board Disqualifies Reference As Not Meeting Requirements of 102(e)

By: Matthew L. Cutler, Principal

May 18, 2015

Doctrine of Inurement Does Not Save Design Patent in IPR Proceeding

By: Matthew L. Cutler, Principal

April 24, 2015

“Indirect” Common Inventorship Not Sufficient To Support Priority Claim Under 35 U.S.C. §120

By: Glenn E. Forbis, Principal

April 3, 2015

IPR Incorporation by Reference Argument Not Enough to Save Priority Claim

By: Matthew L. Cutler, Principal

March 25, 2015

PTAB Rules Lab Notebooks Insufficient to Prove Conception and Reduction to Practice

By: Matthew L. Cutler, Principal

March 24, 2015

PTAB Rejects Two Attempts by Patent Owners to Antedate Prior Art

By: Matthew L. Cutler, Principal

March 6, 2015

Motion to Exclude is Proper Vehicle in IPR to Remove Reference as Evidence

By: Matthew L. Cutler, Principal

October 20, 2014

Later Priority Date for IPR-Challenged Patent Where No Written Description in Parent

By: Matthew L. Cutler, Principal

February 5, 2014

Dell Ends Up With a Mixed Bag of Results in 2 IPR Petitions Filed Against Acceleron

By: Matthew L. Cutler, Principal

December 3, 2013

Burden is on Petitioner to Prove Priority Date of Patent Challenged in Inter Partes Review

By: Matthew L. Cutler, Principal

November 22, 2013

Board Gives No Weight to Previous Examiner and District Court Decisions that Prior Art Was Antedated

By: Matthew L. Cutler, Principal

November 18, 2013

Copyright Notice without Day and Month Insufficient to Establish Reference as Prior Art

By: Matthew L. Cutler, Principal

October 30, 2013

Priority Date of Challenged Patent Sustained by Board, But IPR Trial Still Instituted on Other Grounds

By: Matthew L. Cutler, Principal

October 17, 2013

Expert Opinion on Claim Construction Must Include Evidence to be Given Weight by PTAB

By: Matthew L. Cutler, Principal

September 17, 2013

Board’s Claim Construction Limited to What it Needed To Initiate IPR Trial

By: Matthew L. Cutler, Principal