In late May, I attended the sixteenth annual Rocky Mountain IP Institute. I also spoke at the Institute about best practices for communicating between in-house team and outside counsel (more on that later). The Rocky Mountain IP Institute has grown to be one of the largest two IP conferences in the country. More importantly than
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2016 Rocky Mountain IP Conference: PTAB Year in Review
By R. David Donoghue on
Posted in Legal Seminars
I attended the 14th annual Rocky Mountain IP & Technology Institute at the beginning of June. This panel looked at the PTAB case law and related Federal Circuit decisions over the last year. Here are the highlights:
- Institution trends
- 87% institution rate in fiscal 2013 trending downward and settling in fiscal 2015-16 around two-thirds
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Patent Reform: Patent Office Reaches Out to Troll Targets
By R. David Donoghue on
Posted in Patent Litigation Tips
As a step in carrying out President Obama’s effort to curb abusive patent troll litigation, the Patent Office has created a valuable resource center for targets of patent troll suits and demand letters, although they refer to it as “abusive patent litigation.” The site has considerable value for retailers, both those facing their first…