Why PTAB’s double threat is not causing panic yet

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Why PTAB’s double threat is not causing panic yet

July 06 2017
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The future of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board was placed in peril by two developments in June – a Supreme Court case that could find AIA trial unconstitutional and a bill in Congress that would completely gut the Board. But PTAB petitioners and fans of the Board have reason to be confident that both threats will be seen off

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