{"id":996,"date":"2014-07-03T11:00:44","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T15:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/?p=996"},"modified":"2014-07-06T11:05:24","modified_gmt":"2014-07-06T15:05:24","slug":"inventor-testimony-irrelevant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/?p=996","title":{"rendered":"Inventor Testimony Irrelevant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em>International Business Machines Corporation v.Intellectual Ventures II LLC<\/em>, IPR2014-00180, Paper 22, (July 3, 2014), the Board denied petitioner&#8217;s request to file a transcript of the inventor&#8217;s testimony as supplemental information.\u00a0\u00a0The Board was unpersuaded by the argument that the inventor testimony is relevant to a claim for which trial has been instituted. The Board said that\u00a0the general relevancy of an inventor\u2019s testimony regarding the operation of the invention has little relevance to\u00a0inter partse review proceedings. The possibility that it might be useful in understanding the invention is not significant enough to show that consideration of the information would be in the interests of justice to allow additional testimony on issues already developed by Petitioner on the record.\u00a0 The Board observed that the request focused on its utility to the panel\u2019s understanding of the technology or assistance in claim construction, a utility that seems generic in nature and untethered to any specific claim for which trial has been instituted.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In International Business Machines Corporation v.Intellectual Ventures II LLC, IPR2014-00180, Paper 22, (July 3, 2014), the Board denied petitioner&#8217;s request to file a transcript of the inventor&#8217;s testimony as supplemental information.\u00a0\u00a0The Board was unpersuaded by the argument that the inventor &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/?p=996\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ZIpB-g4","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=996"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":998,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996\/revisions\/998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}