Bloomberg Law
Aug. 18, 2023, 9:04 PM

Smartflash Loses Records Suit Over Enlarged Patent Appeal Panels

Annelise Gilbert
Annelise Gilbert

Smartflash LLC lost its lawsuit seeking US Patent and Trademark Office records about cases at its appeal board where the panel of judges was expanded.

The company failed to establish standing to bring the lawsuit because the attorney who submitted the Freedom of Information Act request to the patent office didn’t clearly indicate that it was made on Smartflash’s behalf, the US District Court for the District of Columbia said Thursday.

Smartflash was awarded $533 million in 2015 in a patent infringement lawsuit against Apple, but the award was thrown out by the US Court of Appeals for the ...

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