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Partner Thomas Makin and associates Marion Harris and Joseph Purcell (all New York-Litigation) recently wrote an article published by Law 360, titled "Checks and Balances in the Inter Partes Review Statute."
Partner
Thomas Makin and associates Marion Harris and Joseph Purcell
(all New York-Litigation) recently wrote an article published by
Law 360, titled "Checks and Balances in the Inter Partes
Review Statute."
In this article, the authors discuss the administrative
procedures that were designed to "provide 'quick and cost
effective alternatives to litigation'" and explore, in
particular, the inter partes review (IPR) process. While IPR has
been very successful for challenging the validity of patents, not
all challenges are successful. In addition, Congress crafted
the law authorizing IPR in such a way as to limit multiple
successive challenges by accused infringers, effectively limiting
them to a single petition, filed within a limited time of facing
infringement allegations. However, the law did not account for
industry groups that provide IPR-filing services for its fee-paying
members. The article explores the competing arguments as to whether
these groups are behaving fairly and, if not, how their behavior
could be limited.
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