Civil Litigation,
Intellectual Property
Apr. 18, 2018
Is the PTAB pendulum poised to swing back?
In the years since the America Invents Act took effect in 2012, what have we learned, and where are we likely heading?
Brenton R. Babcock
Partner
Loeb & Loeb LLP
Phone: (949) 760-0404
Email: bbabcock@loeb.com
Brent represents high-technology clients in every aspect of intellectual property disputes, focusing on federal district court litigation throughout the country, trials and post-grant patent proceedings before the USPTO's Patent Trial and Appeal Board, ex parte appeals before the PTAB, and alternative dispute resolution proceedings, including domestic and international arbitrations.
This column appeared in the April 18 TOP INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY LAWYERS special report.
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In the most dramatic revision of the United States Patent Code in more than half a century, the America Invents Act harmonized America's system with the international norm, changing from first-to-invent to first-to-file. But with that fundamental shakeup, Congress also charged the former Board of Patent Appeals and Interfer...
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