Alarm.com Incorporated v. USPTO
Docket No. 2021-2102 (https://cafc.uscourts.gov/opinions-orders/21-2102.OPINION.2-24-2022_1913344.pdf)
TARANTO, CHEN, CUNNINGHAM
February 24, 2021
Brief Summary: DC decision dismissing Alarm.com’s ex parte reexamination requests following IPR FWDs of the same claims reversed and remanded as PTO did not decide “whether the requests presented a ‘substantial new question of patentability’”. Summary: In 2015, Alarm.com filed IPRs against three Vivint patents (6,147,601; 6,462,654; and 6,535,123) that each resulted in final written decisions (FWDs) in 2017 rejecting the challenges to some claims that were each affirmed by the FC in 2018. In mid-2020, Alarm.com filed three requests for ex parte reexamination
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