August 2022

Varian Medical Systems, Inc. filed two IPR petitions  challenging claims of U.S. Patent No. 6,393,096 (which is generally directed to a method and apparatus for conformal radiation therapy of tumors…

Killian appeals from the decision of the PTAB affirming the examiner’s rejection under 35 U.S.C. § 101 of all pending claims of U.S. Patent Application No. 14/450,042 relating systems and…

Par manufactures and sells Vasostrict®, a vasopressin injection product used to treat patients with critically low blood pressure. Once approved by the FDA, Vasostrict® was added to the Orange Book,…

Click-to-Call sued Ingenio for patent infringement asserting sixteen claims of U.S. Patent No. 5,818,836 relating to anonymous voice communication using an online data service. Ingenio filed a petition for IPR…

The Board, in response to Axioma’s petition for inter partes review of Kamstrup’s U.S. Patent No. 8,806,957 (relating to ultrasonic flow meters and housings), found claims 1–15 unpatentable as obvious…

The University of Minnesota sued LSI for infringement of U.S. Patent No. 5,859,601 which addresses error rates related to recording data to computer storage devices. LSI petitioned for inter partes…

This case was remanded by the Supreme Court to the CAFC to consider whether assignor estoppel should preclude Minerva from challenging the validity of claim 1 of Hologic’s U.S. Patent…

During prosecution of U.S. Patent No. 8,280,901 (relating methods and systems related to the display of primary and secondary search results in response to search queries), the examiner rejected claims…

Thaler filed two patent applications listing his “Device for the Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Science” (DABUS) artificial intelligence (AI) software system as the sole inventor on both applications. The Patent…