{"id":17122,"date":"2016-09-22T14:00:28","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T14:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipo.org\/?p=17122"},"modified":"2016-09-26T14:41:33","modified_gmt":"2016-09-26T14:41:33","slug":"parallel-proceedings-district-court-ptab-endgame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipo.org\/index.php\/parallel-proceedings-district-court-ptab-endgame\/","title":{"rendered":"Parallel Proceedings in District Court and the PTAB: The Endgame\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our panel will discuss the latest news and tactics regarding the complex interaction between post-grant proceedings at the PTAB and related district court actions. A substantial number of asserted patents are involved in such parallel proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>The panelists<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>will consider the high-stakes race to the courthouse in parallel proceedings. The law gives little guidance what happens when there is a conflict between decisions by the PTAB and by federal courts on patent validity. In May, for instance, a Texas federal judge ordered Ion Geophysical to pay $21 million to Schlumberger in a patent infringement case, despite a ruling from the PTAB invalidating the underlying patent claims. \u201cThe PTAB\u2019s final written decisions are currently no more than nonfinal agency determinations, subject to appeal,\u201d the judge wrote. But in <em>Fresenius v. Baxter<\/em> (2013), the Federal Circuit decided that a USPTO reexamination decision invalidating a patent trumps prior decisions by both the District Court and the Federal Circuit. The Federal Circuit reasoned that the earlier validity decisions did not count for <em>res judicata <\/em>purposes because it did not conclude the case as a whole. The Federal Circuit was sharply divided in its <em>Fresenius<\/em> decision and declined to reconsider the holding en banc in a divided opinion, raising questions about whether a differently composed panel will reach the same outcome.<\/p>\n<p>Speakers:<\/p>\n<p>Gary Frischling, <em>Irell &amp; Manella LLP<\/em><br \/>\nMichael Florey, <em>Fish &amp; Richardson, PC<\/em><br \/>\nNeil Sirota, <em>Baker Botts LLP<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our panel will discuss the latest news and tactics regarding  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Parallel Proceedings in District Court and the PTAB: The Endgame\u00a0 - 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