In 2011, Congress passed the America Invents Act, which replaced the inter partes reexamination process with inter partes review (IPR). The IPR procedure was intended to streamline disputes by, among other things, shortening...more
When inter partes review (IPR) proceedings became effective in September 2012, few people would have predicted the transformative effect it would have on patents and the litigation landscape. Three years in, IPR has become...more
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