Acting Director of the USPTO Coke Morgan Stewart recently discretionarily denied institution of an inter partes review (IPR) based on a new consideration, “settled expectations,” that is, the length of time that the...more
The US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in In re: Power Integrations, Inc. holds that mandamus actions are not available to allow a “disappointed petitioner [to] by-pass the statutory bar on appellate review simply by...more