The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) finding that tribal immunity does not apply to inter partes review (IPR) proceedings. Saint Regis Mohawk ...

On April 24, 2018, the same day that the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of inter partes review (IPR) challenges to issued patents in one decision (Oil States Energy Services v. Green’s ...

Yesterday the United States Supreme Court issued decisions in both Oil States v. Green Energy and SAS Institute v. Iancu. In Oil States the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of inter partes ...

Policy makers in Washington are closer than ever to passing legislative reforms that have the potential to rein in the high cost of prescription drugs in the United States. Substantial obstacles ...

EDITORIAL NOTE: This article is the sixth installment of an 8-part series exploring the constitutionality of the PTAB under the public rights doctrine. To begin reading from the beginning please see: ...

Most claims are being accepted for trial and Delaware seems reluctant to grant stays: Scott Alter, Walter Linder and Robert O’Loughlin explain these and other conclusions from the first year of inter ...

The case originated from a suit leveled by Oil States International Inc., which leveraged a patent against competitor Greene's Energy Group. Using the IPR procedure, Greene's successfully challenged ...

Last week, a federal appellate court upheld on constitutional grounds a controversial procedure that has in recent years rendered thousands of patent claims invalid. In MCM Porfolio v. Hewlett-Packard ...