USPTO Director to Consider U.S. Manufacturing and Small Business Status When Instituting or Denying IPR and PGR Petitions
Key Takeaways Effective immediately, the USPTO will consider whether a patent challenger’s accused products or a patent owner’s products are manufactured in the United States as additional factors in the...
Sheila Swaroop Comments on USPTO Memo on U.S. Manufacturing Factors in AIA Reviews
In the Law360 article “Manufacturing Factor Adds More New Twists to AIA Cases,” Knobbe Martens partner Sheila Swaroop weighed in on the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office’s latest memo regarding...
Presented by Netflix—Grammar Police: An Exercise in Claim Construction
NETFLIX, INC. V. DIVX, LLC Before Moore, Dyk, and Taranto. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: Common principles of English grammar may be used to identify the...