Avoiding IPR Institution: Your Best Defense to an IPR Challenge
By EsqSocial Corporation 27/10/20
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) was once famously referred to by the former chief judge of the Federal Circuit, the honorable Randall Rader, as a patent death squad. While the PTAB has consistently pushed back on that characterization, the latest data set of published trial statistics show that patent owners best defense to an inter partes review or other post-grant challenge is still avoiding institution altogether....
By: Mintz - Intellectual Property Viewpoints