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May 17, 2015

PTAB Issues Subpoenas in Two IPR Proceedings

By: Matthew L. Cutler, Principal

May 8, 2015

Board Clarifies When Expanded Panel Can Consider an IPR Issue

By: Matthew L. Cutler, Principal

April 24, 2015

“Indirect” Common Inventorship Not Sufficient To Support Priority Claim Under 35 U.S.C. §120

By: Glenn E. Forbis, Principal

April 22, 2015

Strategies for Pharma Companies Facing Bass-Like Challenges in IPR Proceedings

By: Matthew L. Cutler, Principal

April 20, 2015

30 Months of IPR Practice – By the Numbers

By: Matthew L. Cutler, Principal

April 15, 2015

Live Testimony for Fact Witness Can Be Appropriate at IPR Oral Hearing

By: Matthew L. Cutler, Principal

April 13, 2015

Toward a Bullet-Proof Petition – Motivation to Combine

By: Matthew L. Cutler, Principal

April 10, 2015

Which Party Should File Motion to Seal in Inter Partes Review?

By: Matthew L. Cutler, Principal

April 8, 2015

Pharmaceutical Filings on the Upswing as Power of IPR Becomes More Well-Known

By: Matthew L. Cutler, Principal

April 6, 2015

Timing Is Everything When It Comes To Interlocutory Appeals of CBMR-Related Motions To Stay

By: Glenn E. Forbis, Principal

April 3, 2015

IPR Incorporation by Reference Argument Not Enough to Save Priority Claim

By: Matthew L. Cutler, Principal

April 2, 2015

Another IPR Victory for Harness IP – Defeat All Challenged Claims of 3 Patents

By: Matthew L. Cutler, Principal

April 1, 2015

PTO Previews Changes to Inter Partes Review Practice

By: Matthew L. Cutler, Principal

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