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On July 17, 2023, the Patent Trial and Appeals Board (“PTAB”) exercised its discretion under 35 U.S.C. § 314(a) to deny institution of an inter partes review petition based on the...

Newly appointed USPTO Director Kathi Vidal issued a set of interim procedures clarifying how the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB or Board) should apply its Fintiv decision going...

In Brief - A compelling case of unpatentability or stipulations about not pursuing the same grounds in district court will remove petitions from consideration for discreti...

On June 22, 2022, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued two documents regarding the Patent Trial and Appeals Board's discretionary denials of post-grant challenges based on...

No recent Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) decision has been more impactful than Apple Inc. v. Fintiv, Inc., IPR2020-00019 (Mar. 20, 2020). It has led to about 200 discretionary...

In its precedential order in Apple Inc v Fintiv, Inc, the US Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) clarified its approach to whether to deny institution of a postgrant proceeding under 35 USC section 314 based on a co-pending district court proceeding. The March 2020 Fintiv order was controversial and provoked a spirited response from stakeholders. This included a federal lawsuit in August 2020 by several of Silicon Valleys heavy hitters, who alleged that the so-called "NHK-Fintiv rule" 1 is "...