Ex Parte Reexamination Control No. 90/015,984, U.S. Patent No. 8,810,458 (U.S.P.T.O. May 22, 2026) The USPTO recently denied a request for ex parte reexamination (“EPR”) after concluding that the Requester, Geotab USA, Inc., was attempting to relitigate substantially the same prior art and invalidity arguments that it had previously raised in an unsuccessful inter partes […]

Applications in Internet Time, LLC v. Salesforce, Inc., No. 25-2026 (Fed. Cir. March 16, 2026) After years of litigation, the Federal Circuit dismissed a patent infringement lawsuit because the plaintiff couldn’t prove it owned the patents at the time it filed the suit.  The decision in AIT v. Salesforce emphasizes these lessons: The precise wording […]