Cisco Systems, Inc. v. Golden Eye Technologies LLC

Standard

2026-00186 · US10051556

In plain English: The Patent Office declined to review this case as a matter of discretion, without deciding whether the challenged claims are valid.

How to read this page: start with the Case brief above, use (the small numbered links) to open the exact source page they cite, then use Reference material further down for claim-by-claim and ground-by-ground detail.

Case brief

Discretionary denial

Outcome record: Institution deniedReviewed against the official PDF

The Director denied institution in this proceeding by a notice dated April 28, 2026, after review of discretionary and non-merits considerations.[1][4][5]

Director's Notice of Decisions on Institution: institution denied (discretionary and non-merits considerations) April 28, 2026

  • The notice does not identify the challenged patent, the challenged claims, or the parties; those docket facts appear in the matter heading from the Office's docket record.
  • The notice does not list the petition's grounds, and its denial rests on discretionary and non-merits considerations rather than on any ground's merits.[4]
  • There is no Board decision: the denial came by Director notice, and no trial followed.
  • The record supplied for this brief ends with the notice; no request for rehearing or Director review appears in it.

A notice that lists several matters supports only the dispositions it states; it supplies no analysis from which to draw broader lessons.

Reference material

Claim-by-claim and ground-by-ground records underlying the brief above.

Claims × grounds ()

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Denied grounds ()

No institution-stage grounds recorded yet.

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