PTAB round-up: steady filing; Aqua Products fall-out; precedential and informative decisions; and more

November 08 2017

October at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board saw a levelling out of petition filing, the first ever extension of the final written decision deadline for good cause, and one precedential and three informative PTAB decisions

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