Change has propelled inter partes reviews (IPRs) since the process launched at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) in 2012. In the period since March 2020, when we first published this...more
In 2018, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board aligned its claim construction standard in post-grant proceedings with the standard applied by the federal courts and the International Trade Commission. Greater consistency was the...more