Trend Micro v. CUPP

Trend Inc. filed petitions in the Patent and Trademark Office seeking inter partes reviews (IPRs) under 35 U.S.C. §§ 311–19 of certain claims of two patents owned by CUPP Computing AS—claims 1, 7, and 16 of U.S. Patent No. 8,365,272 and claims 1, 6, and 7 of U.S. Patent No. 9,756,079. The PTO’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board, after instituting and conducting the requested reviews, issued final written decisions holding each claim 1 to be unpatentable but rejecting Trend Micro’s challenges to claims 7 and 16 of the ’272 patent and claims 6 and 7 of the ’079 patent. Trend Micro Inc. v. CUPP Computing AS, No. IPR2019-00561, 2020 WL 3709007, at *1 (P.T.A.B. July 6, 2020) (IPR561 Decision); Trend Micro Inc. v. CUPP Computing AS, No. IPR2019-00641, 2020 WL 3697863, at *1 (P.T.A.B. July 6, 2020) (IPR641 Decision). Trend Micro appeals the Board’s holding regarding claims 7 and 16 of the ’272 patent and claim 7 of the ’079 patent. We vacate the Board’s final written decisions on each appealed claim and remand.