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PTAB Litigation

We are routinely recognized as a top filer of inter partes review (IPR) petitions and have been a leader in Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) practices since the administrative body was formed in 2012. Our team obtained the first ever full denial of an IPR institution, and has developed a successful approach to PTAB matters that allows us to maximize efficiency, value, and quality for our clients.

Relevant Industries

Chemistry + Chemical Engineering
Electrical + Computer Technologies
Internet, E-Commerce + Business Methods
Life Sciences + Pharmaceuticals
Medical Devices

Representative Experience

RTC Industries Fasteners for Retail, Inc. v. RTC Industries, Inc. Nos. IPR2018-00741, IPR2018-00742, IPR2018-00743 and IPR2018-00744, USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Represented RTC Industries in its infringement lawsuit against Fasteners for Retail, and on Sept. 12, 2018, prevented inter partes review institution against four of RTC’s patents.

Mattel Spin Master Ltd. V. Mattel, Inc., IPR2018-01672, IPR2018-01673 and IPR2018-01674, USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Represented Mattel in three inter partes reviews, as well as in an associated patent infringement case involving Mattel’s Mecard line of transformable toys.

Comcast Cable Communications Comcast Cable Communications, LLC v. Rovi Guides, Inc., et al.; Nos. IPR2017-00217, et al., USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Represent Comcast in a large number of inter partes review petitions filed to defend our client against a series of ITC and district court attacks by Rovi.

NIKE In Skechers U.S.A., Inc. v. NIKE, Inc., Nos. IPR2017-00607, IPR2017-00608, IPR2017-00617, IPR2017-00619, IPR2017-00620, IPR2017-00621, IPR2017-00623, USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Represented NIKE against ongoing attempts to invalidate design patents related to its popular FREE midsole and outsole designs.

YETI Coolers, LLC. RTIC Coolers LLC v. YETI Coolers, LLC., Nos. IPR2016-01176, IPR2016-01207, IPR2016-01430, IPR2016-01432 and IPR2017-00468, USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Represented YETI in five inter partes reviews filed by RTIC Coolers against three of YETI’s patents for technology related to the latching mechanisms contained on its heavy duty premium hard-sided coolers, and the materials and properties of its soft-sided coolers.

NIKE In Adidas AG v. NIKE, Inc., Nos. IPR2016-00921, IPR2016-00922, USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board

Represented NIKE in inter partes reviews brought by adidas against two NIKE patents related to its FLYKNIT technology.

Our Perspectives

IP Alert

Merck Challenges PTAB’s Non-Obviousness Decision of Wyeth’s Patent

Banner Witcoff IP Alert, Nov. 19, 2019

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IP Alert

Federal Circuit to PTAB: You Overstepped Your Mandate

Banner Witcoff IP Alert, Nov. 11, 2019

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IP Alert

Federal Circuit to Decide if Patentee is Bound by Earlier Statement to PTAB

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IP Alert

Federal Circuit Finds Campbell Soup's "Primary" Reference to be "M'm! M'm! Good!"

Banner Witcoff IP Alert, Oct. 3, 2019

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PTAB Highlights

A Review of the PTAB Bulk Data Search Tool

Banner Witcoff PTAB Highlights, July 17, 2019

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Why Patent Ownership Disputes Can Make or Break Consumer Product Launches

Journal of the Patent & Trademark Office Society. 02/26/2019

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Article

First PTAB Reversals Under New Subject Matter Eligibility Guidance

IP Watchdog. 02/15/2019

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IP Alert

First PTAB Decision Reversing Examiner Under New Subject Matter Eligibility Guidance

Banner & Witcoff IP Alert 02/02/2019

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PTAB Highlights

In IPR, a Picture is Worth a Thousand Words … or Worse than Worthless

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 12/12/2018

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Presentation

Patent Law Year in Review 2018 Presentation

Presented to The D.C. Bar. 12/11/2018

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IP Alert

Helsinn v. Teva at the Supreme Court: Did the America Invents Act Change the On-Sale Bar?

Banner & Witcoff IP Alert. 12/5/2018

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IP Alert

Allergan v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA: Will the Recognized Commercial Success of Restasis® Demonstrate Non-Obviousness?

Banner & Witcoff IP Alert. 12/3/2018

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PTAB Highlights

Magic! Now You See the Patent, Now You Don’t!

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 11/15/2018

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Article

Recent Developments in Patent Law 2018

Banner & Witcoff. 11/8/2018

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PTAB Highlights

In IPR, a Patent Owner gets SASsy — With a Bold New Interpretation that the Supreme Court SAS Case Makes for Bad in many IPRs

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 10/15/2018

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Presentation

2018 Recent Developments in Patent Law

Presented to the 19th Annual Virginia Information Technology Legal Institute. 10/12/18

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IP Alert

New Claim Construction Standard at the PTAB as of November 13, 2018

Banner & Witcoff IP Alert. 10/10/18

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PTAB Highlights

In IPR, It’s What, Why, and How That Makes Your Case

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 09/10/2018

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IP Alert

Full Panel of Fed. Cir. Clarifies that Even Voluntarily Dismissed Cases Start the Year Time-Bar Clock for Inter Partes Review

Banner & Witcoff IP Alert. 08/27/2018

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PTAB Highlights

In IPR, It Ain’t Who to Believe, It’s What to Believe, at a Detailed Level

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 08/13/2018

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Article

Post-SAS, To File Or Not To File A Preliminary Response?

Law360 Expert Analysis. 07/31/2018

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Article

One Shot and You Are Out at the PTAB

Banner & Witcoff IP Update. Summer 2018.

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Article

Is There a New "New Narrative" to be Told About Patents?

Banner & Witcoff IP Update. Summer 2018.

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PTAB Highlights

Patents – Equal to Franchises and Toll Bridges? Seven Justices Seem to Say Yes in Inter Partes Review Decision

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 07/10/2018

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PTAB Highlights

“You Took My Patent in IPR! Now You Owe Me!” … Don’t Take Out Your Wallet Just Yet

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 06/25/2018

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PTAB Highlights

Your Inter Partes Review Petition and its Proof – Couldda, Wouldda … Shouldda

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 06/04/2018

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IP Alert

Can Challengers Now Attack Subject Matter Eligibility in Inter Partes Reviews?

Banner & Witcoff IP Alert. 05/31/2018

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IP Alert

Weak Structural Similarity Augmented by Functional Similarity Suffices for Prima Facie Case of Obviousness

Banner & Witcoff IP Alert. 05/25/2018

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PTAB Highlights

In Inter Partes Review, Ride the Phillips Horse You Came In On

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 05/08/18

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IP Alert

Is Functional Similarity Between Compounds Sufficient to Create a Prima Facie Case of Obviousness?

Banner & Witcoff IP Alert. 05/02/2018

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IP Alert

SAS Institute, Inc. v. Iancu: Raising the Stakes to an All-Or-Nothing Game at the PTAB

Banner & Witcoff IP Alert. 04/30/2018

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Article

High Court Raises the Stakes at PTAB

Law360 Expert Analysis. 04/27/2018

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IP Alert

Oil States: Patents Are Public Rights, IPRs Are Here to Stay

Banner & Witcoff IP Alert. 04/26/2018

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PTAB Highlights

An Exhausted Analysis of “Non-Exhaustive”: “Funny Things Are Everywhere”

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 03/29/2018

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PTAB Highlights

Patent Trial and Appeal Board Writes a Decision the Federal Circuit Doesn’t Like? Too Bad for You, You Lose

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 03/28/2018

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IP Alert

Which Patent Trial and Appeal Board Trial Decisions Cannot be Appealed?

Banner & Witcoff IP Alert. 03/26/2018

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IP Alert

When is a Published Patent Application Entitled to an Earlier Date as a Reference?

Banner & Witcoff IP Alert. 03/09/2018

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IP Alert

Capturing Inventions from FDA Label Changes

Banner & Witcoff IP Alert. 02/14/2018

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IP Alert

The Safe Harbor for Divisional Applications Shrinks

Banner & Witcoff IP Alert. 02/02/2018

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PTAB Highlights

Warning! Warning! Danger Will Robinson! In IPR, React in Fear of Danger to Anything That is Arguably a “Warning”

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 01/16/2018

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PTAB Highlights

In Inter Partes Review — Meet the Standards of the Few, or Risk Your Petition

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 01/09/2018

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IP Alert

Can a Potential Infringer Use an IPR to Gain Access to Article III Courts?

Banner & Witcoff IP Alert. 01/09/2018

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Article

Trends and Practice Tips in Therapeutic Antibody Patenting

Banner & Witcoff IP Update. Fall/Winter 2017

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Presentation

Patent Law Year in Review 2017 Presentation

Presented to The D.C. Bar. 12/12/2017

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Article

Patent Law Year in Review 2017

Presented to The D.C. Bar. 12/12/2017

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IP Alert

Supreme Court Continues its Analysis of the AIA in SAS v. Matal

Banner & Witcoff IP Alert. 11/29/2017

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IP Alert

Supreme Court Considers Constitutionality of Inter Partes Review in Oil States

Banner & Witcoff IP Alert. 11/29/2017

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IP Alert

Is a Product-by-Process Limitation a Fig Leaf?

Banner & Witcoff IP Alert. 11/13/2017

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IP Alert

Is the Safe Harbor for Divisional Applications Shrinking?

Banner & Witcoff IP Alert. November 6, 2017

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IP Alert

Clinical Trials: When is the Right Time to File for a Patent?

Banner & Witcoff IP Alert. 09/20/2017

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PTAB Highlights

Don't Like Your PTAB Decision in IPR? Ask the PTAB to Pack the Court

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 09/11/2017

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IP Alert

Improvement or Selection Inventions: Cannot Assume Obviousness Elements

Banner & Witcoff IP Alert. 09/01/2017

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PTAB Highlights

If Inter Partes Reviews Are Unconstitutional, Will There Be Zombie Patents? Yikes! It Could Happen

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 08/31/2017

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Article

Fed. Circ. Decision Addresses Key Oil States Argument

Law360 Expert Analysis. 08/31/2017

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IP Alert

Inter Partes Reviews – Who Can Get the Big Job Done

Banner & Witcoff IP Alert. 08/15/2017

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PTAB Highlights

At the PTAB, Riddle Me This: Is the Lack of a Clear Exclusion its Own Clear Exclusion?

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 07/26/2017

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Article

Using Ex Parte Appeals to Advance Key Patents to Further Corporate Goals

Banner & Witcoff IP Update. Spring/Summer 2017

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PTAB Highlights

Are Inter Partes Reviews Unconstitutional? Time for Some History

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 07/12/2017

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PTAB Highlights

At the PTAB, Don't Drive the Wrong Car

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 07/10/2017

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PTAB Highlights

At the PTAB, If It’s Ancient, Meaning 1997, It's Prior Art

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 06/28/2017

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PTAB Highlights

Now That IPR Is Instituted, Stay For Litigation Over Growlers Is Granted – Cheers!

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 06/22/2017

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PTAB Highlights

Unsupported Rule 1.132-Type Declaration by Interested Inventor Will Not Work for Patent Owner in an AIA Trial

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 06/15/2017

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PTAB Highlights

What's the "Stock" Way to Organize an IPR Petition?

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 05/25/2017

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Article

Amending Claims at the PTAB - A Fool's Errand?

Managing Intellectual Property. 05/17/2017

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PTAB Highlights

How Many Days in Three Months? 90? 91? 92? Not At The PTAB In IPRs

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 05/11/2017

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PTAB Highlights

Can’t Stop Arguing? IPRs are Right for You

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 05/05/2017

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IP Alert

Federal Circuit Avoids “Foundational Change in the Theory of the Statutory On-Sale Bar”

Banner & Witcoff IP Alert. 05/04/2017

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PTAB Highlights

At the PTAB in IPR, Is There a New Dawn, a New Day, on Secondary Considerations? Some, But Not All, Should be Feeling Good

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 05/02/2017

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PTAB Highlights

In IPR, Is a “Prior Art” U.S. Patent Prior? Be Careful

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 04/17/2017

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PTAB Highlights

We Got Sued for Patent Infringement, We Want a Stay Pending IPR! How Do We Get One? Answer: Get Crackin'!

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 03/21/2017

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PTAB Highlights

Is Your Patent Eligible for Covered Business Method Review? Your Claim Language Matters. Your Specification Language Might Matter

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 03/09/2017

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PTAB Highlights

Your Patent Portfolio and Inter Partes Review - Are You Watching Your USPTO Correspondence Addresses? You Should

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 02/28/2017

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PTAB Highlights

In Inter Partes Review, Should I Defend My Patent with a Preliminary Response? Sure, Join the Club, Attack Everything About the Petition

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 02/27/2017

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PTAB Highlights

Will Broadest Reasonable Interpretation in IPRs Get "Trumped?" It's Possible

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 02/03/2017

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Article

Supreme Court Confirms Broadest Reasonable Interpretation Allowed in Inter Partes Review and Limits Review of Institution Decisions

Landslide. January-February 2017

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PTAB Highlights

You Lost the IPR You Started. You Get an Appeal, Right? No, Maybe Not

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 01/27/2017

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PTAB Highlights

How Many Words Do You Have to Challenge Each Patent Claim in IPR?

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 01/04/2017

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Article

Recent Developments in Post-Grant Review Eligibility

Banner & Witcoff IP Update. Fall/Winter 2016

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Article

2016 Recent Developments in Patent Law - Case Law

Presented to The D.C. Bar. 12/12/2016

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PTAB Highlights

PTAB Review of Pupil Dilation Patent a Real Eye Opener on PTAB Case Witnesses and Tests

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 12/07/2016

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PTAB Highlights

Return to Sender: A Place the PTAB May No Longer Go

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 11/28/2016

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Article

IPR: Histrionics and Statistics

World Intellectual Property Review. 11/10/2016

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IP Alert

Federal Circuit Hears Arguments in Helsinn Healthcare S.A. v. Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc.

Banner & Witcoff IP Alert. 10/06/2016

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Article

2016 Patent Developments for IT Practitioners

Presented to the Virginia Information Technology Legal Institute. 09/30/2016

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PTAB Highlights

Late to File Your IPR, But the PTAB Says You're OK? Don't Worry, the Federal Circuit Can't Care

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 09/27/2016

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PTAB Highlights

In Your IPR, Your Expert Declares...So That's Evidence By Itself, Right? No, Not So Much

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 08/30/2016

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PTAB Highlights

Patent Applicants: Want to Avoid Broadest Reasonable Interpretation in Inter Partes Review? That's Right - Use Means Clauses

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 08/03/2016

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PTAB Highlights

Patent Owner! Your Burdens in IPR – Broadest Reasonable Construction, Preponderance of Evidence, Severely Limited Amendment – But Burden to Prove You Deserve Your Patent? Yes

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 07/27/2016

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PTAB Highlights

"Your PTAB Judges Will Be Experts" - Right? ... Not So Fast

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 07/26/2016

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PTAB Highlights

Patent Owner's Parent Application Disclosing Osteoporosis Treatment Methods Did Not Enable the Challenged CIP Claims

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 07/11/2016

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Article

The IPR Trial -- A Play in Three Acts

The IP Litigator. May/June 2016

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IP Alert

U.S. Supreme Court Decides Cuozzo Speed v. Lee

Banner & Witcoff IP Alert. 06/20/2016

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Article

Is Broadest Reasonable Interpretation the Appropriate Standard in an IPR? Supreme Court to Decide

Banner & Witcoff IP Update. Spring/Summer 2016

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Article

A Midwestern Patent Lawyer in Justice Roberts' Court

Federal Circuit Bar Association Bench & Bar Newsletter. May 2016

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IP Alert

U.S. Supreme Court Hears Oral Arguments in Cuozzo Speed Technologies v. Lee

Banner & Witcoff IP Alert. 04/25/2016

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Article

A Petitioner's Guide to Handling IPRs in the Higher Survival Patent Arena of Biotech & Pharma

BNA's Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal. 04/15/2016

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Article

A Patent Owner's Guide to Handling IPRs in the Higher-Survival Patent Arena of Biotech & Pharma

BNA's Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal. 04/08/2016

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PTAB Highlights

More March Madness: PTAB Slams Petitioner and Insufficient IPR Petition

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 03/31/16

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PTAB Highlights

Finally, the PTAB Gets Told to Give Patent Owners in IPR Some Due Process

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 03/17/2016

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PTAB Highlights

PTAB Denies Lupin’s IPR in Win for Pozen – Claimed Tablet That Provided Coordinated Drug Release Not Suggested by Prior Art, Which Had a Preferred Formulation That Provided the Reverse Release

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 03/09/2016

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PTAB Highlights

PTAB Denies Amgen's IPR in Win for AbbVie

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 02/04/2016

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Article

Which is Better - Patent Arbitration or Patent Post-Issuance Proceedings?

The IP Litigator. 12/15/2015

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PTAB Highlights

PTAB Holds Claims Invalid That Were Held To Be Not Invalid in Litigation Appeal

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 11/17/2015

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Article

The Rules of the Post-Grant Game

World Intellectual Property Review. 11/05/2015

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PTAB Highlights

Eight Days Late, and an Exercise of Discretion Short -- PTAB Refuses to Conform to an IPR Settlement

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Article

Which is Better - Patent Arbitration or Patent Post-Issuance Proceedings?

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PTAB Highlights

Carefully Consider Corporate Relationships When Determining Real Parties-in-Interest

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Article

2015 Patent Developments for IT Practitioners

Presented to The Virginia Information Technology Legal Institute. 10/09/2015

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IP Alert

USPTO Issues Second Round of AIA Rule Changes

Banner & Witcoff IP Alert. 09/08/2015

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PTAB Highlights

PTAB Puts the Brakes on Applying the Same Element in a Reference to 2 Elements in a Claim

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PTAB Highlights

Preparing for the Obvious at the PTAB

Law360 Expert Analysis. 06/30/2015

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Article

Challenging and Defending Obviousness at the PTAB

Banner & Witcoff IP Update. Spring/Summer 2015

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Article

Strategies in Inter Partes Review Proceedings for Biotech/Pharma Patents

Banner & Witcoff IP Update. Spring/Summer 2015

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PTAB Highlights

No More Soup For You - PTAB Rejects Second IPR Petition Under 35 U.S.C. § 325(d)

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 05/06/2015

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Book

Banner & Witcoff 2015 Journal of Intellectual Property Law

Annual Collection of Published Articles and Media Comments

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PTAB Highlights

Benefits of Showing Discovery as "Routine" Instead of "Additional"

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 04/23/2015

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Article

A Slip of the Pen May Cost You Your IPR

IP Litigator. March/April 2015

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PTAB Highlights

First IPR Design Patent Decision Affirmed by Federal Circuit

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 04/15/2015

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Article

The Role of Post-Grant Reviews in Patent Challenges before the PTAB

Landslide. March/April 2015

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PTAB Highlights

Use Wayback Machine with Caution: PTAB Excludes Website Printouts From Wayback Machine

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 03/26/2015

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PTAB Highlights

POSITA Motivated to Pursue Clinical Development of Therapy Disclosed in Prior Art Despite Hurdles

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 03/06/2015

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PTAB Highlights

A Slip of the Pen May Cost You Your IPR

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 02/26/2015

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PTAB Highlights

Who You Gonna Call? The Board!

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 02/23/2015

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PTAB Highlights

Federal Circuit IPR Scoreboard: PTAB: 2; Patent Owner: 0

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 02/13/2015

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PTAB Highlights

Don't Forget Indefiniteness as a Ground for Invalidation in a CBM Patent Review

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 12/19/2014

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Article

Recent Developments in Patent Law

Presented to the D.C. Bar. 12/09/2014

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PTAB Highlights

PTAB Follows District Court's Claim Construction

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 11/10/2014

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PTAB Highlights

PTAB Refuses to Give Petitioner a Second Chance to Articulate Reasons for Invalidity

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 11/10/2014

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PTAB Highlights

PTAB Cracking Down on Serial IPR Petitions

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 11/04/2014

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PTAB Highlights

PTAB Post Office Decision Shows CBM Proceedings Not Limited to Finance Companies

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 10/24/2014

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PTAB Highlights

Don't Try to Barnstorm Proof of Printed Publication

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 10/16/2014

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PTAB Highlights

To Stay or Not to Stay

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 10/09/2014

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Article

Goodbye Patent Arbitration? Cheaper and faster alternatives may spell the end for a popular solution

Corporate Counsel Special Intellectual Property Section. Fall 2014

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PTAB Highlights

PTAB Provides Guidance for Demonstrating Prior Invention to Overcome 102(a) Challenge

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 10/01/2014

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PTAB Highlights

PTAB Provides Guidance for Meeting Burden to Show Written Description for Substitute Claim

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 09/24/2014

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PTAB Highlights

PTAB Denies Institution of Inter Partes Review of Design Patent, Noting 35 U.S.C. 171 is Not a Prope

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 09/22/2014

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PTAB Highlights

PTAB Continues to Deny IPR Petitions, Based on Arguments Incorporated By Reference

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 09/22/2014

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PTAB Highlights

PTAB Permits Entry of Declaration Testimony in an IPR, But Denies Cross-Examination of Declarant

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 09/22/2014

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PTAB Highlights

PTAB Rejects "Unusual" Inventor Testimony That His Own Invention Was Not Reduced To Practice and Fin

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 09/17/2014

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PTAB Highlights

IPR Petition Barred Under 35 U.S.C. § 315(b)

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 09/17/2014

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PTAB Highlights

PTAB Draws Line on Admissibility of Declaration Evidence in IPR

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 09/03/2014

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PTAB Highlights

PTAB Dismisses Argument That Priority Date is a § 112 Issue Not Reviewable in an IPR

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 09/03/2014

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PTAB Highlights

PTAB Continues Hard Line on Motions for Additional Discovery, Door Open for Some Limited Discovery

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 08/28/2014

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PTAB Highlights

Voluminous Declaration Leads to PTAB Denial of IPR Petition

Banner & Witcoff PTAB Highlights. 08/28/2014

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Article

Five Considerations When Choosing How to Challenge Patent Validity

Banner & Witcoff IP Update. Spring/Summer 2014

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Article

Standard For Amending Claims In IPR May Need To Change

IP Law360. 03/13/2014

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Presentation

Motions to Amend in Inter Partes Review Proceedings - A Quick Reference

IIPI/BBNA AIA Post-Grant Patent Practice Conference. 02/20/2014

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Article

Three Ways to Challenge a Patent

Today's General Counsel. Dec./Jan. 2014

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IP Alert

Potential Benefits to Filing Certain U.S. Patent Applications Before AIA Changes Go Into Effect

Banner & Witcoff IP Alert. 01/23/2013

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Article

Rules for America Invents Act Provision

Banner & Witcoff IP UPDATE. Fall/Winter 2012

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IP Alert

America Invents Act Final Rules Take Effect on September 16, 2012

Banner & Witcoff IP Alert. 08/30/2012

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Article

The America Invents Act and What It Means for the Future of Patent Acquisition and Enforcement

Peking University's Innovation and Intellectual Property Journal. 11/29/2011.

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Article

First Inventor to File, Derivation Proceedings and Post Grant Review After Patent Reform - What You

B&W Webinar. 10/04/2011. Matthew Becker, Gary Fedorochko, Richard Stockton and Neil Trueman.

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Article

The America Invents Act and What it Means for the Future of Patent Acquisition and Enforcement

Banner & Witcoff Intellectual Property Alert. 09/16/2011.

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Article

Status of Patent Reform Legislation

Banner & Witcoff IP Update. Article with contribution from Charles D. Wineland, III, a 2011 Banner & Witcoff Summer Associate. 06/30/2011.

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Article

Patent Reform Act Proposed For 2009

Banner & Witcoff IP UPDATE. Spring/Summer 2009.

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