The America Invents Act created three new post-grant proceedings to challenge the validity of patents: inter partes review, post-grant review and covered business method review. For each of these proceedings, identification of every real party-in-interest is important because these proceedings impose various requirements and prohibitions on each real party-in-interest and their privies.

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