Tag Archives: Post Grant Review

PTAB PRPS Day Three Filings: 2 IPRs and 1 CBM

The PTAB Patent Review Processing System (PRPS) showed postings of 3 more petitions today.  One was an IPR Petitioned by Microsoft against U.S. Pat. 6,757,717, relating to a system for data access in a packet-switched network.  Another was Idle Free Systems, … Continue reading

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More IPR Filings on Day 2

If you are monitoring adoption of post-issuance filings you may have noticed that five more IPR filings were filed on the second day of operation of the PTAB trials portal pursuant to the new IPR and CBM patent review options … Continue reading

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PTAB Trial Portal has Eight First Day Filings: 3 CBM and 5 IPR

To kick off covered business method (CBM) and inter partes review (IPR) practice, there were eight post-issuance filings on the first day of the PTAB Trials electronic filing system: You can click on the image to expand it or just go … Continue reading

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PTO, PTAB and AIA History in the Making Today, September 16, 2012

Today the PTO received its first petitions for inter partes review (IPR) and covered business method patent review (CBM) pursuant to the America Invents Act (AIA).  We are in a kind of second phase of implementation of the AIA that … Continue reading

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