ELG attorneys have once again been recognized for their excellence in the field of patent law. Patexia recently released its third Patent Litigation Intelligence Report covering patent litigation activity for a 5-year period from July 1, 2017, through June 30, 2022. The report provides high-level statistics for 18,493 district court patent cases filed during the… Read more »
Etheridge Law Group, on behalf of WSOU Investments, recently defeated three ZTE entities* in an IPR trial instituted against all 45 claims of US Patent No. 7,203,505 (IPR No. 2021-00698). The Board instituted trial on the “reasonable likelihood” that petitioner ZTE would prevail on all 45 challenged claims. After briefing and oral argument, however, the Board agreed with Etheridge Law… Read more »
Recently, Etheridge Law Group defeated the third and final IPR petition filed by Salesforce against WSOU Investments. These wins result in a complete sweep of the three Salesforce IPRs filed against WSOU patents.* WSOU asserted all three patents against Salesforce in the Western District of Texas. In the denial of the institution for each IPR, the Patent… Read more »
In a second appeal arising from inter partes review of U.S. Patent No. 8,274,991, the Federal Circuit found that the petitioner forfeited an obviousness argument that it failed to raise in its reply to the patent owner’s response. In the first appeal, the Federal Circuit adopted a claim construction consistent with a construction offered in the patent… Read more »
ELG is proud to announce that it has once again been independently recognized as one of the nation’s top firms in inter partes review (IPR) proceedings. ELG is included in the 2022 edition of Patexia Inc.’s IPR Intelligence Report on IPR proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). The report covers 7,030 IPR cases filed… Read more »
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