A successful appeal to the Federal Circuit from the PTAB typically ends in vacatur and remand. As explained a few weeks back, surprisingly, the Board is not simply correcting the record on remand to maintain its earlier decision.

The Patent Trial & Appeal Board (PTAB) will host its next "Boardside Chat" webinar this Thursday, April 5 from noon to 1 p.m. ET.

The PTAB has created and is hiring for a new Judicial Law Clerk Program. The PTAB modeled this program off the judicial law clerk program used in the federal courts.

As pointed out yesterday over at IPWatchdog, the USPTO Solicitor has withdrawn as Intervenor in the Federal Circuit appeal between Telebrands Corporation and Tinnus Enterprises.

Today, the Federal Circuit issued a stay of further Patent Trial & Appeal Board (PTAB) proceedings pending the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe's sovereign immunity appeal.

Today the Patent Trial & Appeal Board (PTAB) added to its growing stockpile of cases that address the meaning of "same or substantially the same prior art or arguments" under 35 U.S.C. § 325(d).

The bill (here) is a carbon copy of the Senate Bill (save some cosmetic changes).

When appealing a decision of an administrative agency such as the Patent Trial & Appeal Board (PTAB), reversal is quite rare.

Patent owner estoppel is codified by Patent Trial & Appeal Board regulation (37 C.F.R. § 42.73(d)(3)(i)). This rule is designed — much like patent interference estoppel — to thwart patent owners from securing claims ...

Just over half of all final written decisions for petitions challenging Orange Book-listed patents find all claims patentable.

Senator Tom Cotton (R-Arkansas) and Senator Claire McCaskill (D-Missouri) along with Senators Pat Toomey (R-Pennsylvania), Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), David Perdue (R-Georgia) introduced...

The Supreme Court provided its most up-to-date guidance on the boundaries of Article III jurisdiction relative to acts of Congress in Patchak v. Zinke, No. 16-498.

In addition to the state sovereign immunity dispute now headed to the Federal Circuit, you might recall that the Patent Trial & Appeal Board (PTAB) was also considering the related question of whether sovereign immunity applies to Board proceedings involving Native American tribes.

With so much attention being paid to Oil States, it was easy to lose sight of many of the more noteworthy Patent Trial & Appeal Board (PTAB) related decisions of 2017.

State-affiliated entities enjoy immunity from suit in federal courts under the 11th amendment.