Year in Review Column,
Civil Litigation,
Intellectual Property
Dec. 14, 2017
Patent office issues needed inter partes review guidance
Inter partes review turned five years old this year, and the process has been widely adopted as a complement to patent litigation. Yet not everyone has been pleased.
Benjamin M. Haber
Associate
Irell & Manella LLP
Email: bhaber@irell.com
Ben is an associate in the firm's Los Angeles office, where he is a member of the IP litigation and patent post-issuance proceedings practice groups.
2017 IN REVIEW
Inter partes review turned five years old this year, and the process has been widely adopted as a complement to patent litigation. Yet not everyone has been pleased. A well-functioning inter partes review system is fair, predictable and consistent. But patent owners have argued that inter partes review was unfairly stacked against them. This has resulted in an inter partes review system, patent owners often claim, that is out of...
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