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On Remand, Federal Circuit Rejects Wi-Fi One’s Time-Bar Arguments

April 23, 2018
Robert Gravois

The Federal Circuit holds that the Board did not err in deciding several issues relating to whether a party was time-barred from petitioning for IPR under 35 U.S.C. § 315(b). As discussed in an earlier post, the Federal Circuit in Wi-Fi…

PTAB Terminates Instituted IPRs After Petitioner Becomes Estopped from Challenging the Claims

February 4, 2018
Robert Gravois

The PTAB terminated two instituted IPRs because the petitioner became estopped from challenging the claims as a result of final written decisions issuing in other IPRs. The estoppel provisions of 35 U.S.C. § 315(e) attach to an IPR petitioner once…

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