The issues to watch in Cuozzo at the US Supreme Court

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The issues to watch in Cuozzo at the US Supreme Court

January 21 2016
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The Supreme Court in Cuozzo could scrap the PTAB’s use of the broadest reasonable interpretation in IPRs. But its ruling on the less-publicised question of whether institution decisions are unreviewable could have a bigger effect. In the meantime, petitioners and patent owners will have to adjust their PTAB strategies to guard against uncertainty

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