PTAB Strategies and Insights – August 2019

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 you will find articles covering:

• The Federal Circuit’s decision in VirnetX v. Apple and Cisco, addressing reexamination estoppel issues when invalidity has been finally decided in a parallel district court litigation;
• A PTAB decision that partially based denial of institution because nearly identical issues were already resolved in a parallel ITC decision; and
• A series of POP and PTAB precedential and informative decisions dealing with Sections 315, 314, and 325.

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