Patent Applications Published After the Priority Date of a Challenged Patent Are Not 'Printed Publications' for IPRs

A published U.S. patent application that never issued as a patent can be used as the basis for an IPR challenge because it’s printed and it’s a publication, right? Not so fast.

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