PTAB Strategies and Insights – May 2019

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 three topics:

• We discuss the Board’s explanation why the indefiniteness analysis may differ depending on whether infringement or validity is being addressed;
• We highlight why the Board distinguished the precedential NHK decision when instituting trial in Amazon;
• We discuss the latest in a long line of Federal Circuit decisions finding a petitioner had no standing to appeal.

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