Change has propelled inter partes reviews (IPRs) since the process launched at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) in 2012. In the period since March 2020, when we first published this...more
In 2018, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board aligned its claim construction standard in post-grant proceedings with the standard applied by the federal courts and the International Trade Commission. Greater consistency was the...more
In 2011, Congress passed the America Invents Act, which replaced the inter partes reexamination process with inter partes review (IPR). The IPR procedure was intended to streamline disputes by, among other things, shortening...more
Motions to amend have been part of America Invents Act trials since their inception. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office solicited public input on the motion to amend process, which was followed by a study by the Patent...more
2020 | Attorney Publications When the U.S. Supreme Court decided SAS Institute Inc. v. Iancu in the spring of 2018, it held that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board must institute inter partes review on either all claims raised...more