May 17, 2023
Discretionary denials of patents by the patent trial and appeal board may wane under proposed rule
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Matthew A. Chivvis
Partner
Morrison & Foerster LLP
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San Francisco , CA 94105
Phone: (415) 268-7307
Email: mchivvis@mofo.com
University of San Francisco SOL; San Francisco CA
In 2012, with the America Invents Act, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences was reformed as the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). The PTAB has since become a highly utilized venue for challenging patents in post-grant review (PGR) and inter partes review (IPR) proceedings.
Initially, there was some skepticism about whether companies litigating life sciences disputes would avail themselves of ...
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