Wonderland Nurserygoods wins Rule 36 affirmance and successfully defends patent claims in multiple rounds of IPRs
Client(s) Wonderland Nurserygoods Co. Ltd.
Jones Day secured a second Federal Circuit win for Wonderland Nurserygoods Co. Ltd. in a long-running dispute involving a baby crib patent that underwent multiple rounds of IPRs. Another law firm originally handled the first round of IPRs, until Jones Day took over on the eve of the initial PTAB oral hearings. The PTAB found all the Wonderland claims unpatentable in that first round of IPRs, but Jones Day achieved a rare reversal of the PTAB's unpatentability findings on appeal at the Federal Circuit. The Wonderland patent then went through a second round of IPRs after a SAS Institute remand, and the Jones Day team persuaded the PTAB to confirm the patentability of all the claims on all the remanded grounds. The IPR petitioner appealed that second PTAB decision, and–in another rare Federal Circuit occurrence—the court issued a Rule 36 affirmance without oral argument.
Baby Trend, Inc. v. Wonderland Nurserygoods Co., Ltd., IPR Nos. 2015-00841, -00842 (PTAB); Wonderland Nurserygoods Co. v. Baby Trend, Inc., Nos. 2017-1295, -1297 (Fed. Cir.)
