Intellectual Property
Nov. 21, 2013
Patent board rising as a preferred dispute venue
The PTAB is now the third busiest venue for challenging patents. By Ben M. Davidson
Are administrative judges of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board going to be "acting as death squads, killing [intellectual] property rights"? That is how Chief Judge Randall Rader of the Federal Circuit characterized the PTAB in informal remarks at an annual meeting of IP professionals in Washington, D.C. last month. Judge Rader was not commenting on or criticizing any decisions made by the PTAB. The board is relatively new and, at the...
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