Patent US10514223

PTAB challenges

AIA trial proceedings at the USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board — IPR, PGR, and CBM. Petitioners, judge panels, claim-level invalidation outcomes from Final Written Decisions, and Federal Circuit appeals. The single most important defensive datapoint after litigation history.

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Proceedings on file (0)

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AIA trial proceedings (IPR / PGR / CBM) filed at the USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board against this patent. Sourced from the USPTO Open Data Portal and refreshed every six hours; each proceeding number deep-links to the PTAB E2E docket.

Current assignee: ABC IP, LLC, RARE BREED TRIGGERS, LLC

No PTAB proceedings on file. This patent has not been challenged via IPR, PGR, or CBM. The absence is itself a signal — well-asserted patents eventually attract IPRs. The LLM analysis below may surface filings the ODP feed hasn’t indexed yet.

PTAB challenges

AIA trial proceedings at the USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board — IPR, PGR, and CBM. Petitioners, judge panels, claim-level invalidation outcomes from Final Written Decisions, and Federal Circuit appeals. The single most important defensive datapoint after litigation history.

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Proceedings overview

The USPTO ODP API indicates no AIA trial proceedings on file for US Patent US10514223. This suggests that as of the most recent ingest, there have been no Inter Partes Review (IPR), Post-Grant Review (PGR), or Covered Business Method (CBM) proceedings initiated against this patent. For a defendant, this means the patent's claims remain untested at the PTAB, offering a potentially open field for new challenges.

Strategic summary

As there are no PTAB proceedings on file for US10514223, all claims (claims 1-7) remain unchallenged and are considered UNTESTED by the PTAB.

The absence of PTAB activity means there is currently no estoppel landscape established under 35 U.S.C. § 315(e)(2). Therefore, a defendant currently facing assertion of this patent is not barred from raising any prior art grounds that could have been raised in an IPR, PGR, or CBM proceeding. All statutory bases (§ 102, § 103, § 112) remain available for potential challenges.

The lack of PTAB proceedings can be interpreted in several ways. It might indicate that potential challengers have opted for district court litigation, or that the patent has not yet attracted sufficient attention to warrant an AIA trial. The litigation history provided in the patent summary shows extensive district court activity, which could be a reason for the absence of PTAB challenges, as parties may be litigating validity in those venues.

Recommended next steps

If you are a defendant facing assertion of US105144223, the absence of PTAB proceedings means that the patent's claims have not been formally challenged or narrowed at the USPTO. This presents an opportunity to consider initiating a PTAB proceeding (such as an IPR) if strong prior art exists that was not considered by the examiner during prosecution. Such a challenge could potentially invalidate claims or strengthen your negotiation position. You would need to conduct thorough prior art searching to identify robust grounds for invalidity under 35 U.S.C. §§ 102 or 103.

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