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Patent Challengers Are Retreating to Ex Parte Reexamination – and That Is Mostly Good News for Patent Owners

For more than a decade, the most prevalent way to attack a patent outside of court has been the “inter partes review” (IPR) provided by the America Invents Act in 2012. That is changing quickly. As the USPTO has issued an increasing number of discretionary denials – refusing to institute an IPR without ever reaching […]

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