Sterne Kessler Publishes Report Examining Key 2022 Federal Circuit Rulings on PTAB and ITC Appeals

Washington, D.C. (February 7, 2023) – Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox has announced the publication of Federal Circuit Appeals from the PTAB and ITC: Summaries of Key 2022 Decisions. The annual year-in-review report was edited by Director Michael Joffre, Ph.D. and authored by Directors Kristina Caggiano Kelly, William H. Milliken, Anna G. Phillips, R. Wilson “Trey” Powers III, Ph.D., Deirdre M. Wells and Jon E. Wright; and Counsel Jennifer Meyer Chagnon and Richard A. Crudo.

Now in its seventh year, this annual report provides summaries and analysis of the most significant decisions issued last year by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit involving cases on appeal from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC). Topics of the featured intellectual property cases include exclusion of expert testimony, the ITC’s ability to enforce consent orders, estoppel by inter partes review (IPR) final written decisions, standing to challenge PTAB decisions on appeal, obviousness in light of overlapping ranges in the prior art, and settlements of IPRs before the PTAB.

The full Federal Circuit Appeals from the PTAB and ITC: Summaries of Key 2022 Decisions report and individual articles are available on Sterne Kessler’s website in HTML and PDF formats here. The firm also held a webinar on February 2 associated with the report, which is available on demand here. An encore presentation of the webinar will be held on February 16 and submitted for CLE. More details and the registration link for the encore webinar are available here.

Later this month, Sterne Kessler will host year-in-review webinars on notable 2022 design patent and PTAB decisions. A companion report to the design patents webinar will also be released. Read more about these upcoming webinars and register here.

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