ARE Patent Law Alert:
In Another Win For Firm’s IPR Team, PTAB Confirms its Authority to Deny Untimely Challenges to the Real Party in Interest

Amster, Rothstein & Ebenstein, LLP attorneys successfully defended against a challenge to the named real party in interest (“RPI”) in a series of inter partes review (“IPR”) proceedings brought by Petitioner First Quality Baby Products, LLC against Patent Owner Kimberly-Clark Worldwide, Inc.’s 8,747,379 B2: IPR2014-01021, -01023, and -01024. In its decision issued on July 16, 2015, […]

Claim Construction Is Ultimately A Question Of Law But May Involve Underlying Factual Questions

Teva Pharms USA, Inc v Sandoz, Inc, United States Supreme Court, No 13-854, 574 US __ (20 January 2015) Abstract The US Supreme Court reversed a previous determination by the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, holding that, while the construction of patent claims is a question of law for a judge to […]