Daniel Kamkar and Adam Powell Named Among 2024 Leaders of Influence in Law by San Diego Business Journal
SAN DIEGO, October 31, 2024 – Knobbe Martens is pleased to share that partners Daniel Kamkar and Adam Powell were profiled in San Diego Business Journal’s (SDBJ) 2024 Leaders of...
Platinum Cannot Stand on Speculation
PLATINUM OPTICS TECHNOLOGY INC., v. VIAVI SOLUTIONS INC.
Before Moore. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
Summary: Standing based on potential infringement liability requires concrete plans for future activity which will create a substantial risk of future infringement or will likely lead to a patentee claiming infringement.
Unforced Error: An IPR Challenger Cannot Rely on an Error That a Posita Would Have Corrected
LG ELECTRONICS INC. v. IMMERVISION INC.
Before Stoll, Cunningham, and Newman, Appeal from the United States Patent and Trademark Office, Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
Summary: Where a reference contains an “obvious” error in a disclosure, even if not immediately apparent on the face of the disclosure, the erroneous information may not support a finding of obviousness.
Claims Survive IPR Challenge Under Narrow Construction Because It Was The Broadest Reasonable Interpretation
Despite applying the standard of broadest reasonable construction, a claim term’s narrowed construction to refer to a specific detection method was proper in view of its exclusive use in the written description as referring to the specific method as well as its foundational relationship to the claims.
