Analysing PTAB first-quarter petitions – filing falls to a two-year low

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Analysing PTAB first-quarter petitions – filing falls to a two-year low

April 19 2016
PTAB filing per quarter

Managing IP crunches the data to reveal the busiest petitioners, patent owners, law firms, and attorneys at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board in the first three months of 2016. The quarter included some interesting petitions such as the first IPR challenging an Apple patent

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