PTAB issues last Coalition for Affordable Drugs written decision

March 22 2017

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has now given rulings in all 33 petitions filed by Kyle Bass’s Coalition for Affordable Drugs. The final tally is that the coalition succeeded in getting claims invalidated in 27% of the total petitions filed and 50% of those that were instituted

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