Using PTAB Proceedings to Challenge and Defend Patents
$295
About the Course
This session provides crucial insights into a range of procedural changes taking place
at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB).
The General Plastic factors — which the USPTO Director may rely upon in denying AIA trial
petitions — are discussed in great detail, along with broader shifts in PTAB practice
and procedure.
The following are among the issues discussed in this crucial webinar:
- •The impact of terminating the Covered Business Methods track on challenging business method patents
- •How reduced institution rates are affecting PTAB-related settlements
- •Standing requirements for mounting inter partes review challenges
- •How start-ups can benefit from the relative ease of filing PTAB patent invalidity challenges
- •The role of contingency litigators in defending PTAB-challenged patents
- •Potential impacts of PTAB changes on International Trade Commission complaints
- •Circumstances under which parallel petitions may be instituted
- •The scope of discovery and availability of expert testimony in PTAB proceedings
- •The effect of estoppel on proceedings at the PTAB and the International Trade Commission
- •Why the PTAB is often described as a “Court of Obviousness”
- •The impact of the Phillips claim construction standard on district court stays
- •Whether a patent surviving an invalidity challenge is typically admissible in district court litigation
The following decisions are examined during this session:
- •General Plastic Co., Ltd. v. Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- •Shenzhen Silver Star Intelligent Technology Co. Ltd. v. iRobot Corp.
- •NHK Spring Co. Ltd. v. Intri-Plex Technologies Inc.
- •Wirtgen America, Inc. v. Caterpillar Paving Products Inc.
- •Valve Corp. v. Elec. Scripting Prods., Inc.
- •Adobe Inc. v. Rah Color Techs. LLC
Course Leader
Scott McKeown, Partner, Ropes & Gray
Scott McKeown is a partner in Ropes & Gray’s intellectual property litigation practice
and chair of the firm’s PTAB group, focusing on post-grant patent counseling and
administrative trials before the USPTO.
Recognized as one of the world’s leading patent practitioners for post-grant proceedings,
Scott is the most active PTAB trial attorney in the U.S., having handled more than
270 PTAB matters involving stakes exceeding $500 million.
He is a Professorial Lecturer in Law at The George Washington University Law School and
maintains the award-winning blog PatentsPostGrant.com, covering developments in
patent litigation and USPTO post-issuance proceedings.
Course Length
Approx. 1.5 hours
Pricing
$295.00 per user