PTAB Strategies and Insights – March 2021

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:

• How the Federal Circuit set forth the potential to overturn an institution decision through a Mandamus action;
• Timely action is required to avoid equitable intervening rights once a patent owner is put on notice of potential prior art; and
• We share an article that reviews three pending Supreme Court cases that, while not IP-related, involve legal issues that overlap with Arthrex.

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