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FriendFinder Networks Inc. v. WAG Acquisition, LLC

13374942 (P.T.A.B. Oct. 19, 2015)
FriendFinder Networks Inc. v. WAG Acquisition, LLC

14 Cited authorities

  1. Kyocera Wireless v. I.T.C

    545 F.3d 1340 (Fed. Cir. 2008)   Cited 124 times   16 Legal Analyses
    Finding public accessibility when the reference was contained in a book sold to the public

  2. SRI International, Inc. v. Internet Security Systems, Inc.

    511 F.3d 1186 (Fed. Cir. 2008)   Cited 55 times   10 Legal Analyses
    Holding that paper on FTP website, while publicly available, was not publicly accessible because it was “not catalogued or indexed in a meaningful way”

  3. In re Hall

    781 F.2d 897 (Fed. Cir. 1986)   Cited 97 times   4 Legal Analyses
    Holding "that competent evidence of the general library practice may be relied upon to establish an approximate time when a thesis became accessible"

  4. In re Lister

    583 F.3d 1307 (Fed. Cir. 2009)   Cited 38 times   8 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a reference archived in an on-line database searchable by keyword qualified as printed publication

  5. In re Cronyn

    890 F.2d 1158 (Fed. Cir. 1989)   Cited 66 times   5 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a thesis presentation made to a handful of faculty and not catalogued or indexed in a "meaningful" way was not a printed publication

  6. IN RE WYER

    655 F.2d 221 (C.C.P.A. 1981)   Cited 61 times   7 Legal Analyses
    Holding laid-open Australian patent was a printed publication where microfilm copy was available to the public at patent office and abstract was published

  7. Application of Bayer

    568 F.2d 1357 (C.C.P.A. 1978)   Cited 44 times   2 Legal Analyses
    Holding that a thesis housed, but neither shelved nor catalogued, within a university library was not publicly accessible

  8. Section 103 - Conditions for patentability; non-obvious subject matter

    35 U.S.C. § 103   Cited 6,172 times   492 Legal Analyses
    Holding the party seeking invalidity must prove "the differences between the claimed invention and the prior art are such that the claimed invention as a whole would have been obvious before the effective date of the claimed invention to a person having ordinary skill in the art to which the claimed invention pertains."

  9. Section 102 - Conditions for patentability; novelty

    35 U.S.C. § 102   Cited 6,031 times   1028 Legal Analyses
    Prohibiting the grant of a patent to one who "did not himself invent the subject matter sought to be patented"

  10. Section 311 - Inter partes review

    35 U.S.C. § 311   Cited 410 times   205 Legal Analyses
    Establishing grounds and scope of IPR proceeding

  11. Section 314 - Institution of inter partes review

    35 U.S.C. § 314   Cited 380 times   635 Legal Analyses
    Directing our attention to the Director's decision whether to institute inter partes review "under this chapter" rather than "under this section"

  12. Section 401 - Notice of copyright: Visually perceptible copies

    17 U.S.C. § 401   Cited 244 times   3 Legal Analyses
    Requiring notice on works published "by authority of the copyright owner"

  13. Section 42.4 - Notice of trial

    37 C.F.R. § 42.4   Cited 54 times   6 Legal Analyses
    Stating that "[t]he Board institutes the trial on behalf of the Director"

  14. Section 42.108 - Institution of inter partes review

    37 C.F.R. § 42.108   Cited 46 times   69 Legal Analyses
    Permitting partial institution