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U.S. Chemical & Life Science Patents Q2 Newsletter

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5 Federal Circuit Patent Cases You Need To Know

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The Hypocrisy of ‘Delete IP’: Billionaire Frustrations Masquerading as Policy

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March 26, 2015

Board Discusses Difference Between Supplemental Evidence and Information

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 23, 2015

PTAB Declines to Limit Claim Based on Disclosure of Only One Embodiment

By: Matthew L. Cutler, Principal

March 12, 2015

Teaching Away Arguments Fail to Gain Traction with PTAB

By: Matthew L. Cutler, Principal

March 9, 2015

Board Disallows Later IPR Petition Directed at Previously-Challenged Patent

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

March 5, 2015

Another IPR Petition Comes Up Short for Failing to Adequately Show Rationale to Combine

By: Matthew L. Cutler, Principal

March 4, 2015

Legislative Update – STRONG Patents Act Takes Aim at IPR and PGR

By: Matthew L. Cutler, Principal

January 30, 2015

27 Months of Inter Partes Review – By the Numbers

By: Matthew L. Cutler, Principal

December 23, 2014

Unavailability of IPR Witness for Deposition Undercuts Testimony

By: Matthew L. Cutler, Principal

December 18, 2014

PTAB Will Not Review Contract Issues Even if They Relate to Standing

By: Matthew L. Cutler, Principal

December 17, 2014

IPR Motions for Joinder are Common, But Not Automatic

By: Matthew L. Cutler, Principal

December 16, 2014

Rationale from Denied Ground Used By PTAB In Final Written Decision

By: Matthew L. Cutler, Principal

December 11, 2014

IPR Obviousness Challenge of Design Patent Denied

By: Matthew L. Cutler, Principal

December 8, 2014

IPR Patent Owner Succeeds in Antedating Key Prior Art

By: Matthew L. Cutler, Principal

December 4, 2014

Pyrrhic Victory: IPR Petition Denied Because Claims Indefinite

By: Matthew L. Cutler, Principal

December 3, 2014

Inter Partes Review – A Fair and Efficient Litigation Alternative

By: Matthew L. Cutler, Principal

December 2, 2014

Third IPR Petition Directed to Same Patent Denied under 35 U.S.C. § 325(d)

By: Matthew L. Cutler, Principal

December 1, 2014

Patent Public Advisory Committee 2014 Annual Report

By: Matthew L. Cutler, Principal