Ascentcare Dental Products, Inc. v. Solmetex, LLC

Amazon.com, Inc. et al.vsNokia Technologies Oy

The USPTO Director denied Amazon’s request for a Director Review of the institution decisions in two IPRs involving Nokia’s patent 11,805,267, leaving the institution rulings in place.

Askeladden L.L.C.vsIntercurrency Software LLC

The PTAB issued a final decision finding claims 19-36 unpatentable based on obviousness over combinations of prior art references. The Petitioner successfully demonstrated that the combination of Calo, Rude, and Sellberg was sufficient to teach key limitations in electronic trading/forex methods.

PacifiCorp et al.vsMES, Inc.

The PTAB institution decision found that the Petitioner successfully established a reasonable likelihood of prevailing on multiple claims against Birchtech Corp.'s patent. The grounds for unpatentability centered on obviousness (103) based on combining prior art related to pollutant removal from flue gas.

Juniper Networks, Inc.vsPortsmouth Network Corporation

The PTAB issued a Final Written Decision finding that ten of the fifteen challenged claims were unpatentable under 35 U.S.C. § 103 based on various combinations of prior art references (Blease, Weyman, Hu, Deng). The Board found sufficient motivation to combine Blease and Weyman for distributed architecture features, while also finding that combining Blease/Weyman with Hu was plausible for bandwidth efficiency improvements.

Stingray Group Inc. et al.vsHernandez-Mondragon, Edwin et al.

The PTAB granted institution of IPR for Stingray Group against Hernandez-Mondragon, focusing on multimedia streaming patents. The Board found the Petitioner had a reasonable likelihood of prevailing on unpatentability grounds.