Posts from November 2023.
Practical Considerations for Information Disclosure Statements in Light of Elekta

The recent September 2023 Federal Circuit decision in Elekta Ltd. v. Zap Surgical Systems, Inc., Case No. 21-1985 (Fed. Cir. 2023) shows that patent applicants should give consideration to formally addressing – on the record during prosecution - the relevance of the prior art references disclosed in their information disclosure statements (“IDSs”) to avoid later misinterpretation by tribunals in potential future Inter Partes Review (IPR) proceedings and court decisions.  Such misinterpretation may lead a tribunal to combine IDS references from irrelevant fields and ... Read More ›

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