{"id":9056,"date":"2017-07-12T16:47:14","date_gmt":"2017-07-12T22:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=9056"},"modified":"2017-07-13T05:46:50","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T11:46:50","slug":"oral-argument-of-the-day-intellectual-ventures-ii-llc-v-ericsson-inc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=9056","title":{"rendered":"Oral Argument of the day:  INTELLECTUAL VENTURES II LLC v. ERICSSON INC."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The oral argument of the day comes from\u00a0<em>INTELLECTUAL VENTURES II LLC v. ERICSSON INC.<\/em><span>, No. 2016-1803 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 18, 2017). \u00a0This case is primarily an obviousness case. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Interestingly, near the end of the decision, Judge Lourie, writing for the court, added the following footnote:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a name=\"[2]\"><\/a><span> The Board also instituted review of claims 1 and 2 based on a combination of six references, and later determined that the six-reference combination also rendered claims 1 and 2 unpatentable as obvious. <\/span><em>Final Decision,<\/em><span> 2016 WL 380219, at *11-12. Because we affirm the Board&#8217;s conclusion based on the combination of Li, Yamaura, Zhaung, and Beta, we need not, and do not, reach the second combination.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span>That footnote is given more context by these comments during oral argument from Judge Reyna, who was concerned with possible hindsight being applied by the PTAB when a large number of pieces from different references are combined together* [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2016-1803-excerpt-1.mp3\">Listen<\/a>] and [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2016-1803-excerpt-2.mp3\">Listen<\/a>]. \u00a0To listen to similar comments by other Federal Circuit judges in other oral arguments, visit this [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=8299\">post<\/a>].<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>You can listen to the entire oral argument [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/2016-1803.mp3\">here<\/a>].<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>You can read the court&#8217;s opinion [<a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar_case?q=ericsson&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=4,131&amp;as_ylo=2017&amp;case=13081416561918656592&amp;scilh=0\">here<\/a>].<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>*Sometimes referred to as a Frankenstein&#8217;s Monster rejection.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The oral argument of the day comes from\u00a0INTELLECTUAL VENTURES II LLC v. ERICSSON INC., No. 2016-1803 (Fed. Cir. Apr. 18, 2017). \u00a0This case is primarily an obviousness case. Interestingly, near the end of the decision, Judge Lourie, writing for the court, added the following footnote: The Board also instituted review of claims 1 and 2 [&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\/9056"}],"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=9056"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9068,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9056\/revisions\/9068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}