IPR>>IRL - A brief guide to the essentials of inter partes reviews in real life. Post-Grant Patent Law Practice
By EsqSocial Corporation 28/04/21
In 2011, Congress passed the America Invents Act, which replaced the inter partes reexamination process with inter partes review (IPR). The IPR procedure was intended to streamline disputes by, among other things, shortening the timeline for challenging patents. Further, IPRs put a patent’s fate in the hands of three administrative judges from the USPTO’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). Many of those judges are technically trained, making them different from the average layperson on a...
By: Perkins Coie