Inventors cannot rely on term extension due to Patent Office delays

Petitioner permitted to go beyond petition to rebut Patent Owner’s alternate claim construction

Mystery of inconsistent data solved by looking at priority application

Surgeon’s skepticism of robot surgery doesn’t make robot surgeon patentable

No obligation to volunteer unpatentability issues for a proposed substitute claim based on the prior art of record

Claims to acne treatment “without” ingredient invalidated by reference that did not mention the ingredient

Patent combining ballistic parachute and autopilot system found obvious

The term “fields” requires more than one field

Negative statements in prior art and objective indicia did not negate obviousness

Positions advanced by Caltech, Apple, and Broadcom altered the scope of IPR estoppel and could have had a dramatic effect on patent eligibility and damages computations