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Motions to Amend in AIA Trials
Motions to Amend in AIA Trials
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so motions to amend usually do not make
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sense in most aia trials and that’s
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primarily because of intermediate rights
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that is the fact that
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with an amendment to the claims you lose
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the right to recover damages for past
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infringement the other reason that
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motions to amend usually are not thought
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of
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favorably is that
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if there’s a pending continuation in the
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patent family it’s better to go get the
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claims you want tweak the language etc
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in those pending continuations in fact
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you can even file a reissue application
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during or after an aia trial to do the
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same thing
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now the one exception that i will note
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is sometimes when there’s co-pending
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litigation it makes sense to pursue a
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motion to amend that explicitly
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incorporates your claim construction
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positions into the patent claim language
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and so that’s always something to
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consider
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and the last point i’ll mention is that
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if you do file a motion to amend an aia
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trial these days you should definitely
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take advantage of the patent or the
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pilot programs for such
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they are meant to
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tip the balance in the favor of patent
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owners and they certainly do it would be
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very uncommon not to take advantage of
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those these days
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Washington, D.C. intellectual property lawyer Matt Phillips shares his thoughts about motions to amend in AIA trials.
