PTAB Strategies and Insights – July 2020

The PTAB Strategies and Insights newsletter provides timely updates and insights into how best to handle proceedings at the USPTO. It is designed to increase return on investment for all stakeholders looking at the entire patent life cycle in a global portfolio.

This month we cover:</ p>

• How the Federal Circuit authorizes the PTAB to consider patent eligibility challenges to substitute claims presented in motions to amend;
• The POP answering two outstanding questions regarding motion to amend practice; and
• The PTAB’s objective indicia of non-obviousness analysis under Fox Factory designated as precedential.

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