PTAB Strategies and Insights – May 2018

The PTAB Strategies and Insights newsletter is designed to increase return on investment for all stakeholders looking at the entire patent life cycle in a global portfolio.

This month, we are please to introduce our new format, and we wanted to highlight some unexpected changes that have occurred to the PTAB bar with the issuance of the SAS decision. Our firm and USPTO guidance on SAS and Oil States can be found here, which includes articles, PowerPoints, and a flow chart.

In this issue:

• The SAS Decision
• Patent Trial and Appeal Board – Request for Comment Notice
• Patent Owner Brings Class Action against PTAB for “Taking” Their Patent under Breach of Contract Claim
• “Addendum – Lack of Motivation to Combine – Avoid Declarant Weaknesses”

To read the newsletter, please click the download button.