The impact of inter partes review on patent litigation
The America Invents Act (AIA) created a new post-grant review proceeding in the USPTO: the inter partes review or IPR. On 16 September, 2012, the USPTO stopped accepting petitions for inter partes re-examination and the IPR took its place. IPR, like inter partes re-examination before it, allows the USPTO to reconsider the patentability of a […]