February, 27th, 2018
Categories: Articles, Blog Tags: IPR, litigation, patent, PTAB, USPTO
By Christopher J. Stankus The PTAB recently limited companies’ ability to utilize the doctrine of sovereign immunity to avoid IPR proceedings. Companies have been assigning their patents to state entities and Tribal governments to protect [Read More…]
February, 14th, 2018
Categories: Blog, News Tags: patent, USPTO, whipgroup
WHIPgroup attorneys filed a Pre-Appeal Brief in a patent application related to a method for providing a fault tolerance in an industrial automation and control system. The Examiner had rejected all claims as allegedly being [Read More…]
February, 12th, 2018
Categories: Articles, Blog Tags: patent, PTAB, RCE, startup, USPTO
By Stephen F.W. Ball, Jr. The USPTO’s “count system” is used to try to objectively measure examiner performance, and the categories “production” and “docket management” are over half of overall examiner performance measurement.[1] The reason it [Read More…]
February, 8th, 2018
Categories: Blog, News Tags: patent, USPTO, whipgroup
WHIPgroup successfully obtained allowance of another case using the Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH). The invention is directed to a system for characterizing the wetness of two layers of paint through modelling paint parameters. The Notice [Read More…]
February, 7th, 2018
Categories: Articles, Blog, News Tags: patent, PTAB, USPTO, whipgroup
WHIPgroup attorneys were successful in reversing all prior art rejections of claims directed to a medical apparatus for mounting a sheath onto the distal end of a surgical shaft instrument. WHIPgroup argued that the cited [Read More…]
February, 7th, 2018
Categories: Blog, News Tags: patent, USPTO, whipgroup
WHIPgroup continued its successful use of the patent prosecution highway (PPH). The PPH is a set of initiatives designed to accelerate patent prosecution by allowing participating patent offices to benefit from one another’s opinions (e.g., [Read More…]
February, 6th, 2018
Categories: Articles, Blog, News Tags: patent, PTAB, USPTO, whipgroup
WHIPgroup is pleased to announce that it continued its successful trend of wins before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Of the 16 decisions WHIPgroup obtained in 2017, 13 resulted in a reversal of the [Read More…]
January, 19th, 2018
Categories: Blog, News Tags: patent, USPTO, whipgroup
WHIPgroup obtained another patent allowance using the After Final Consideration Pilot (AFCP) Program. In U.S. Application No. 13/452,108 directed to an endoscopic light conducting device, a Final Office Action rejected pending claims for obviousness. WHIPgroup [Read More…]
January, 16th, 2018
Categories: Articles, Blog Tags: computer, litigation, patent, software, USPTO
By Dov Hirsch Just a few days ago, IBM Corp. sued Expedia, Inc. and its subsidiaries for infringing four of its patents. This suit comes only one day after IBM settled a patent dispute over [Read More…]
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