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In Apple, Inc. v. Iancu, Judge Davila dismissed a lawsuit brought by tech companies who had asked to set aside the NHK-Fintiv rule, which allows PTAB to consider various factors when determining whether to institute review of a patent that is asserted in ongoing litigation.

The now ten year-old law that created the Inter Partes Review (“IPR”) system gave the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“PTO”) the discretion to deny institution of an IPR when there...

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Advertisement The Current State of Precedential Opinions and Denials of Institution at the USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board: Part 1 Wednesday, May 5, 2021 This article is the first of three that will discuss the USPTO Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“Board”)’s use of Precedential Opinions as guidance when exercising discretion whether to institute petitions for post-grant proceedings,  inter partes reviews (IPRs) and post-grant reviews (PGRs). In particular, this article add...

Monday, April 5, 2021 The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is an administrative law body of the US Patent and Trademark Office (USTPO) that determines disputes over the issuance, reissuance, and cancellation of patent claims. The PTAB has become well known to patent litigants since the implementation in 2012 of new proceedings, including  Inter Partes Review (IPR), for challenging the patentability of issued patent claims. The Design and Use of IPRs IPRs were designed to be an a...

New Challenge to IPR Discretionary Denials in View of Parallel Patent Litigation On August 31, 2020, four leading tech companies filed a declaratory action against Andrei Iancu, the Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”), challenging the USPTO’s discretionary authority under 35 U.S.C. § 314(a) to deny inter partes review (“IPR”) petitions in view of parallel patent litigation. Apple, Inc. v. Iancu, Case No. 5:20-CV-06128-EJD, Dkt. 1 (N.D. Cal. Aug. 31, 2020). Ju...