PTAB Strategies and Insights - December 2020: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board Announced Three New Precedential Decisions on RPI And Joinder | Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.
RPX focuses on real party in interest and the 35 U.S.C. § 315(b) time bar. Here, the Chief, Deputy Chief, and Vice Chief Judge of the Board issued the decision. In terminating and IPR, the Board noted that the Federal Circuit remanded this case after holding the petitioner was time-barred because the petitioner’s client was an unnamed real party-in-interest that had been served with an infringement complaint more than one year before filing the petition.