Supreme Court will weigh in on troll-killing patent-review process

Posted by BernardSwiss on Jun 14, 2017 4:26 AM EDT
Ars Technica; By Joe Mullin
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Boiled down, an IPR petition is a request for the US Patent and Trademark Office to reconsider whether it should have granted a certain patent in the first place. If the USPTO takes up an IPR petition, the result is a kind of "litigation-light," with briefing by lawyers and a short trial-like procedure at the USPTO. The IPR process was created by the 2011 America Invents Act, and the reviews got underway in 2012.

IPRs follow a process that is substantially faster, and a whole lot cheaper, than trying to invalidate a patent in district court.

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