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U.S. Supreme Court,
Intellectual Property,
Corporate,
Constitutional Law

Sep. 26, 2017

Could court bring dead patents back to life?

There is the possibility that chaos and turmoil will reign if the Supreme Court finds inter partes reviews unconstitutional in Oil States v. Greene's Energy Group.

Andrew Grossman

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OCTOBER 2017 TERM

Could the U.S. Supreme Court bring dead patents back to life? That is a question that stakeholders may have to address after the court considers during the October 2017 term whether inter partes review — an adversarial process used by the Patent and Trademark Office to analyze the validity of existing patent rights — violates the Constitution by extinguishing private property rights through a non-Article III forum without a j...

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