SCOTUS abolishes PTAB practice of partial claim review
25 April 2018
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Ellie Mertens, New York
The US Supreme Court has decided in SAS Institute v Iancu that the PTAB must review all or none of the challenged claims. Observers say the PTAB petitioners could react to the ruling in a number of ways, and it “may increase the number of issues that bubble up to the Federal Circuit”
The US Supreme Court has decided in SAS Institute v Iancu
that Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) must review all or
none of the challenged claims.
Until this decision on April 24, the PTAB had practiced a
system of...
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