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By Jihan Joo and Kevin Keenan In this installment of the PTAB Highlights, Banner Witcoff attorneys examine recent decisions at the PTAB featuring: application of Director Vidal’s recent Memorandum on the Fintiv analysis, the rebuttable presumption that a claim is obvious if its range overlaps with a range taught by the prior art, relying on…

Banner Witcoff’s Mercedes Meyer has been recognized in the 2022 LMG Life Sciences Awards shortlists for patent strategy. Mercedes advises on developing patent strategies, managing intellectual property rights, and making associated investments and acquisitions. The Life Sciences Awards, now in its 10th year, aims to highlight the best in practice in the industry by surveying…

Banner Witcoff is pleased to announce that it has expanded its life sciences practice with the arrival of Mercedes K. Meyer, Ph.D., who brings over 20 years of experience in intellectual property law to the firm’s Washington, D.C., office. Mercedes joins from Faegre Drinker where she represented leading life science and technology companies maintaining an…

By Hugh Warren and Jacob Grotenrath In this installment, Banner Witcoff attorney Hugh Warren and summer associate Jacob Grotenrath examine recent decisions at the PTAB featuring: impermissible hindsight, failure to show reasonable expectation of success, the Board’s discretion to identify a real party-in-interest (RPI), and more! Don’t contradict the art! STMicroelectronics, Inc. v. The Trustees…

Binal Patel was appointed board member of the Chicago Committee on Minorities in Large Law Firms. According to its website, The Chicago Committee seeks racial and ethnic diversity in the legal profession by collaborating with its members to: drive sustainable institutional change at law firms and corporate legal departments; provide professional development, and cultivate the…

By Alex Bruening and Drew Tucker In this installment of the PTAB Highlights, Banner Witcoff examines recent decisions at the PTAB featuring: the showing of error under the Advanced Bionics framework, the timing for joinder requests, the use of stipulations to avoid discretionary denial, and more! Hold your horses! The PTAB won’t consider if the…

By Paul Ansani and Leon Cao In this installment of the PTAB Highlights, Banner Witcoff summer associates examine recent decisions at the PTAB featuring: the interplay between PGR and IPR, Board discretion to consider a new ground against a substitute claim, the consequences of translation errors, and more! No two bites at the PTAB apple.…

By Matt Becker and Scott Burow In this installment of the PTAB Highlights, Banner Witcoff attorneys examine recent decisions at the PTAB featuring: the Board finding an operating manual and thesis in a library database qualified as printed publications, the importance of supporting a motivation to combine with rational underpinnings, the Board refusing to apply…

By Reilley Keane and Kamaram Munira In this installment of the PTAB Highlights, Banner Witcoff attorneys examine recent decisions at the PTAB featuring: the Board granting additional discovery for Patent Owner’s Final Infringement Contentions, the importance of applying your own claim construction, the Board refusing to speculate about the trial date of related litigation, and…