PTAB Strategies and Insights – April 2021

The PTAB Strategies and Insights newsletter provides timely updates and insights into how best to handle proceedings at the USPTO. It is designed to increase return on investment for all stakeholders looking at the entire patent life cycle in a global portfolio.

This month we cover:

• What you need to know about the latest requests for the Supreme Court to resolve alleged Fed. Circ. intra-circuit split on claim construction law; and
• How the Federal Circuit issued a rare reversal of a PTAB final determination of obviousness because the principal reference used in the obviousness combination was not “self-enabled,” and no other record evidence cured that defect.

We welcome feedback and suggestions about this newsletter to ensure we are meeting the needs and expectations of our readers. So if you have topics you wish to see explored within an issue of the newsletter, please reach out to me.

Best,

Jason D. Eisenberg