Nevro Corp.

34 Cited authorities

  1. U.S. v. Williams

    553 U.S. 285 (2008)   Cited 1,687 times   10 Legal Analyses
    Holding that "[w]hether someone . . . had an intent is a true-or-false determination, not a subjective judgment" and hence specifies a sufficiently determinate standard of criminal culpability
  2. KSR International Co. v. Teleflex Inc.

    550 U.S. 398 (2007)   Cited 1,545 times   185 Legal Analyses
    Holding that, in an obviousness analysis, "[r]igid preventative rules that deny factfinders recourse to common sense, however, are neither necessary under our case law nor consistent with it"
  3. Phillips v. AWH Corp.

    415 F.3d 1303 (Fed. Cir. 2005)   Cited 5,813 times   166 Legal Analyses
    Holding that "because extrinsic evidence can help educate the court regarding the field of the invention and can help the court determine what a person of ordinary skill in the art would understand claim terms to mean, it is permissible for the district court in its sound discretion to admit and use such evidence"
  4. Graham v. John Deere Co.

    383 U.S. 1 (1966)   Cited 3,178 times   68 Legal Analyses
    Holding commercial success is a "secondary consideration" suggesting nonobviousness
  5. Vivid Technologies v. American Science

    200 F.3d 795 (Fed. Cir. 1999)   Cited 744 times   5 Legal Analyses
    Holding that party opposing summary judgment must show either that movant has not established its entitlement to judgment on the undisputed facts or that material issues of fact require resolution by trial
  6. United States v. Adams

    383 U.S. 39 (1966)   Cited 479 times   5 Legal Analyses
    Finding that one of ordinary skill in the art would have to ignore long-accepted factors in the field of wet batters to arrive at the claimed invention
  7. IPXL Holdings, L.L.C. v. Amazon.com, Inc.

    430 F.3d 1377 (Fed. Cir. 2005)   Cited 263 times   15 Legal Analyses
    Holding claims at issue as indefinite because they simultaneously claimed an apparatus and method steps
  8. Curtiss-Wright Flow Control Corp. v. Velan, Inc.

    438 F.3d 1374 (Fed. Cir. 2006)   Cited 228 times
    Holding that "the claim differentiation tool works best in the relationship between independent and dependent claims"
  9. CAE Screenplates Inc. v. Heinrich Fiedler GmbH & Co. KG

    224 F.3d 1308 (Fed. Cir. 2000)   Cited 222 times
    Holding there is a presumption that when different words are used to describe different elements they have different meanings
  10. Medichem, S.A. v. Rolabo, S.L

    437 F.3d 1157 (Fed. Cir. 2006)   Cited 173 times   9 Legal Analyses
    Holding that non-inventor's notebook did not corroborate reduction to practice because the non-inventor "did not testify regarding the notebook or the genuineness of its contents" and the district court was therefore "clearly reliant on the inventor to help identify the author of specific entries made in [the non-inventor's] notebook"
  11. Section 103 - Conditions for patentability; non-obvious subject matter

    35 U.S.C. § 103   Cited 6,124 times   478 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."
  12. Section 314 - Institution of inter partes review

    35 U.S.C. § 314   Cited 375 times   632 Legal Analyses
    Directing our attention to the Director's decision whether to institute inter partes review "under this chapter" rather than "under this section"
  13. Section 316 - Conduct of inter partes review

    35 U.S.C. § 316   Cited 290 times   311 Legal Analyses
    Stating that "the petitioner shall have the burden of proving a proposition of unpatentability"
  14. Section 6 - Patent Trial and Appeal Board

    35 U.S.C. § 6   Cited 186 times   63 Legal Analyses
    Giving the Director authority to designate "at least 3 members of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board" to review "[e]ach appeal, derivation proceeding, post-grant review, and inter partes review"
  15. Section 318 - Decision of the Board

    35 U.S.C. § 318   Cited 161 times   139 Legal Analyses
    Governing the incorporation of claims added via the operation of § 316(d)
  16. Section 42.100 - Procedure; pendency

    37 C.F.R. § 42.100   Cited 192 times   75 Legal Analyses
    Providing that the PTAB gives " claim . . . its broadest reasonable construction in light of the specification of the patent in which it appears"
  17. Section 42.8 - Mandatory notices

    37 C.F.R. § 42.8   Cited 11 times   12 Legal Analyses
    Requiring a party to "[i]dentify each real party-in-interest for the party"
  18. Section 42.24 - Type-volume or page limits for petitions, motions, oppositions, replies, and sur-replies

    37 C.F.R. § 42.24   Cited 7 times   31 Legal Analyses

    (a)Petitions and motions. (1) The following word counts or page limits for petitions and motions apply and include any statement of material facts to be admitted or denied in support of the petition or motion. The word count or page limit does not include a table of contents, a table of authorities, mandatory notices under § 42.8 , a certificate of service or word count, or appendix of exhibits or claim listing. (i) Petition requesting inter partes review: 14,000 words. (ii) Petition requesting post-grant

  19. Section 90.2 - Notice; service

    37 C.F.R. § 90.2   2 Legal Analyses

    (a)For an appeal under 35 U.S.C. 141 . (1) (i) In all appeals, the notice of appeal required by 35 U.S.C. 142 must be filed with the Director by electronic mail to the email address indicated on the United States Patent and Trademark Office's web page for the Office of the General Counsel. This electronically submitted notice will be accorded a receipt date, which is the date in Eastern Time when the correspondence is received in the Office, regardless of whether that date is a Saturday, Sunday,