Grin Granted Stay of Dental Monitoring Lawsuit Over Patents

This article reports on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office granting all three of the company Get-Grin’s reexamination requests for its defense of patent litigations brought by Dental Monitoring, a competitor of Get-Grin and how the granted reexams resulted in a full stay of the patent litigations. Sterne Kessler’s client Get-Grin is a leading manufacturer and developer of solutions for oral health needs. The Grin App and Grin Scope® allow patients access to quality professional care from the convenience of their smart devices, all while doctors remotely monitor patients via virtual check-ins for complete visibility. The Patent Office determined that each of Get-Grin’s requests raised “substantial new questions of patentability” as to whether Dental Monitoring’s patents should have issued in the first place.