Joe Matal is a former Acting Director and Acting Solicitor of the USPTO and a current partner at Haynes and Boone, where he specializes in PTAB trials and Federal Circuit appeals. I have written several times about the $2.2 billion verdict in the VLSI v. Intel case. The case is extraordinary not just because of…
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Fintiv Analysis Proves That Fintiv Is Being Used To Leave Likely Invalid Patents In Force
by Josh Landau •
A recently released study from Unified Patents has put numbers to the sense many patent attorneys already had—the Patent Trial and Appeal Board is spending a lot of time on Fintiv discretionary denial analysis. And I’ll follow up on that in a future post. But there’s one other thing that jumps out of the study’s…
Is litigation finance turning justice into the newest financial asset?
by Josh Landau •
This op-ed was originally published at The Hill. The U.S. Supreme Court famously has the words “equal justice under the law” emblazoned above its front door. While the application of this phrase is subject to debate in the courtrooms, committee rooms, and kitchen tables of America, one point of agreement is that the law is supposed…
Fintiv Denials Playing a Role in Huawei Assertion Campaign
by Josh Landau •
Whenever we discuss the U.S. patent system, it’s critical to recall that while these patents are U.S. patents, anyone in the world can obtain one. And they do. In fact, in FY2020, of the 399,055 patents issued by the USPTO, 210,695—more than half—were obtained by residents of foreign countries. Any changes that are made to…