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The Supreme Court will hear oral argument on March 1, regarding the constitutionality of the inter partes review (IPR) system. The Courts decision, which will likely issue this summer, could have far-reaching consequences for both current and future participants in patent cases. In October 2019, in Arthrex v. Smith & Nephew, Inc., 941 F.3d 1320 (Fed. Cir. 2019), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit concluded that the statutory scheme appointing Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB...