Acorda questions real parties-in-interest in first Bass IPR

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Acorda questions real parties-in-interest in first Bass IPR

May 28 2015
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Acorda has filed a preliminary response to Kyle Bass’s first IPR petition, claiming the petition should be rejected for reasons including the petitioner using IPR as a tool to manipulate markets and failing to mention its investors and identifying them as real parties-in-interest

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