Post-Grant Review, STRONG Patents Act

The STRONGER Patents Act of 2019: Weakening Post-Grant Proceedings

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP on 7/12/2019

The sponsors of the STRONGER Patents Act of 2019 -- introduced to the Senate on July 10, 2019 -- may be from both political parties, but they share one clear trait: they hate what post-grant proceedings have done to patent...more

Senate’s STRONGER Patents Act Aims to Address Key PTAB Patent Owner Woes

Jones Day on 7/4/2017

On June 21, Senators Chris Coons (D-Del), Tom Cotton (R-Ark), Dick Durbin (D-Ill), and Mazie Hironoa (D-Hawaii) introduced the “Support Technology & Research for Our Nation’s Growth and Economic Resilience Patents Act of...more

Legislative Developments in Post-Grant Proceedings

Fish & Richardson on 4/22/2016

Amidst a spate of high-profile IPR filings in the life sciences space by hedge fund financiers, the biotechnology industry has mobilized behind two chief legislative strategies designed to limit or eliminate its exposure to...more

Post-Grant Challenges in Life Sciences: A Midyear Assessment

Troutman Pepper on 10/5/2015

The America Invents Act established inter partes review and post-grant reviews mechanisms to challenge the validity of issued United States patents. These procedures were created to improve patent quality, and were introduced...more

Intellectual Property Newsletter - September/October 2015

King & Spalding on 9/29/2015

PTAB Update on Inter Partes Review - On August 19, 2015, the Director of the USPTO released a blog post reporting on the state of post-grant review proceedings created by the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act of 2011 and...more

Congress Continues to Promote Patent Reform Efforts

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 6/13/2015

In recent years, Congress has devoted a great deal of attention to patent reform. Those efforts led in 2011 to passage of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA), which was the most extensive revision of the patent laws in...more