PTAB extends an IPR for good cause for the first time

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PTAB extends an IPR for good cause for the first time

October 25 2017
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The PTAB has extended the one-year deadline in Minerva Surgical v Hologic by six months. The final written decision in the inter partes review was originally set to expire two days after the Federal Circuit released its en banc Aqua Products opinion

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