Yesterday the United States Supreme Court issued decisions in both Oil States v. Green Energy and SAS Institute v. Iancu. In Oil States the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of inter partes ...

Last week, a federal appellate court upheld on constitutional grounds a controversial procedure that has in recent years rendered thousands of patent claims invalid. In MCM Porfolio v. Hewlett-Packard ...

Genetic testing company GeneDx has turned to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board to try and invalidate 11 of Myriad Genetics patents, in a move that underlines the increasing popularity of inter partes ...

Update: The Supreme Court upheld so-called patent death squads in a 7-2 ruling on Tuesday, April 24. The fate of a major patent reform law, enacted in 2011 to improve patent quality, will hang in the ...

Policy makers in Washington are closer than ever to passing legislative reforms that have the potential to rein in the high cost of prescription drugs in the United States. Substantial obstacles ...

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In acquiring new medical technologies, the patent rights to that technology often drive the value of the transaction. An evaluation of the commercial product is all well and good, but much of the ...

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) provides invalidity tools via inter partes review (IPR) and post-grant review (PGR), but which route is better? One may consider important factors ...

There was no clear majority Monday signaling the death of inter partes review—the administrative procedure for reviewing patent validity created by the 2011 America Invents Act. Monday was supposed to ...