{"id":10138,"date":"2018-10-14T15:13:15","date_gmt":"2018-10-14T21:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=10138"},"modified":"2018-10-14T15:13:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-14T21:13:15","slug":"oral-argument-of-the-day-american-vehicular-sciences-llc-v-unified-patents-inc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=10138","title":{"rendered":"Oral argument of the day: AMERICAN VEHICULAR SCIENCES LLC v. UNIFIED PATENTS INC."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The oral argument of the day is from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=11351628401777396313&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=4006\"><i>AMERICAN VEHICULAR SCIENCES LLC v. UNIFIED PATENTS INC.<\/i>, No. 2017-2307 (Fed. Cir. June 19, 2018)<\/a>. \u00a0The CAFC issued a Rule 36 Judgment in this case. \u00a0From what I could glean, an important issue concerned whether the Board panel in an IPR properly applied\u00a0<i>K\/S HIMPP v. Hear-Wear Technologies, LLC<\/i>, 751 F.3d 1362, 1366 (Fed. Cir. 2014) in \u00a0an obviousness &#8220;rejection.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In <i>K\/S HIMPP v. Hear-Wear Technologies, LLC<\/i>, Judge Lourie, writing for the court, stated:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We recognize that the Board has subject matter expertise, but the Board cannot accept general conclusions about what is &#8220;basic knowledge&#8221; or &#8220;common sense&#8221; as a replacement for documentary evidence for core factual findings in a determination of patentability. <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=16958492017770341577&amp;q=k\/s+himpp&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=4,131\"><i>Zurko,<\/i> 258 F.3d at 1385-86<\/a>. To hold otherwise would be to embark down a slippery slope which would permit the examining process to deviate from the well-established and time-honored requirement that rejections be supported by evidence. It would also ultimately &#8220;render the process of appellate review for substantial evidence on the record a meaningless exercise.&#8221; <i>Id.<\/i> at 1386 (citing <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?case=2359099234780843689&amp;q=k\/s+himpp&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=4,131\"><i>Baltimore &amp; Ohio R.R. Co. v. Aberdeen &amp; Rockfish R.R. Co.,<\/i> 393 U.S. 87, 91-92, 89 S.Ct. 280, 21 L.Ed.2d 219 (1968)<\/a>).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><i>K\/S HIMPP v. Hear-Wear Technologies, LLC<\/i>, 751 F.3d 1362, 1366 (Fed. Cir. 2014).<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the oral argument here:<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-10138-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2017-2307.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2017-2307.mp3\">http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/2017-2307.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The oral argument of the day is from\u00a0AMERICAN VEHICULAR SCIENCES LLC v. UNIFIED PATENTS INC., No. 2017-2307 (Fed. Cir. June 19, 2018). \u00a0The CAFC issued a Rule 36 Judgment in this case. \u00a0From what I could glean, an important issue concerned whether the Board panel in an IPR properly applied\u00a0K\/S HIMPP v. Hear-Wear Technologies, LLC, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10138"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10143,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10138\/revisions\/10143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}