How To Join an IPR—And Why You May Want To Inter partes review has become a popular vehicle to challenge patents. Given the benefits of IPRs and the desire to keep an IPR alive before the petitioner ...

You have been sued for patent infringement and decided to challenge the validity of the patent at inter partes review (“IPR”). The next major decision you need to make is “when?” Concurrent district ...

The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit found that ex parte reexamination was unavailable to a challenger who repeatedly tried and failed to raise the same arguments for the same patent in a ...

David McCombs and Jonathan Bowser of Haynes Boone examine a recent Federal Circuit decision holding that IPR estoppel does ...

January 11, 2022 - A third party who is not the patent owner may file a petition for inter partes review (IPR) to challenge the validity of an issued patent before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.

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“Settlement agreements are highly confidential and could be harmful to either or both parties to the IPR if disclosed. Yet the language of Section 317(b) makes it at least facially possible for anyone ...