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New proposals aimed at revamping the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s processes may create more problems than they solve, as Muireann Bolger finds. ....
Introduction The authors have recently proposed alternative analyses for the discretionary denial of IPR and PGR petitions involved in parallel district court litigation, as well as for the discretionary denial of serial petitions filed before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”). The PTAB is also currently at a crossroads with yet a third similar but distinct issue the discretionary denial of parallel petitions filed before the PTAB. “Serial petitions” refer to multiple successive petitions challenging a particular patent that are filed by the same or different petitioners, whereas “parallel petitions” refer to multiple contemporaneous petitions challenging a particular patent that are filed by the same (or a related) petitioner. Although the PTAB has promulgated an analytical factor-based framework for evaluating the discretionary denial of serial petitions, the PTAB has not done so for parallel petitions. Rather, the Board has simply issued general gu ....