To date, in order to submit an amicus brief in a PTAB case selected for Precedential Opinion Panel (POP) consideration, an interested party would either look to an Order from the Board in a subject case inviting such.

Last Friday, the Chief Judge of the Patent Trial & Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a general order directed to the growing number of Arthrex remands, now totaling over 100 cases.

Earlier this year the Patent Trial & Appeal Board (PTAB) instituted trial in Sling TV, L.L.C. et al. v. Realtime Adaptive Streaming, LLC, IPR2018-01331, Paper 9 (PTAB January 31, 2019).

Just over half of all final written decisions for petitions challenging Orange Book-listed patents find all claims patentable.

The PTAB has created and is hiring for a new Judicial Law Clerk Program. The PTAB modeled this program off the judicial law clerk program used in the federal courts.

In view of the decision from the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Aqua Products, Inc. v. Matal, 872 F.3d 1290 (Fed. Cir. 2017), regarding motion to amend practice...

Longest Running PTAB Program in NYC 9/11/19

Late last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee announced the formation of an Intellectual Property (IP) Subcommittee.

A few virtual CLE programs on the horizon, including AIPLA's PTAB Bench & Bar Conference, and the inaugural IPWatchdog Con!

Through more focused strategy, patent owners have ensured that Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) proceedings are not overwhelmingly fatal to Orange and Purple Book patents.

Kat Gregor, tax partner and co-founder of the tax controversy group, was recently appointed to Law360's 2020 Tax Editorial Advisory Board.

Since 2021, Ropes & Gray has been actively tracking actions that states have taken on how or whether environmental, social and governance ("ESG") factors should be applied to the investment decisions.

In the wake of the IRS' Ninth Circuit victory in Altera Corporation v. Commissioner, 926 F.3d 1061 (9th Circuit 2019), the IRS' Large Business and International (LB&I) Division

On February 27, 2018, the Boston Chapter of the Federal Bar Association (FBA) Tax Section and Ropes and Gray co-hosted an event that featured Judge David Gustafson of the United States Tax Court.

On January 17, 2020, a federal district court in Washington ordered Microsoft Corporation ("Microsoft") to produce many documents to the Internal Revenue Service.

On March 13, 2018, the IRS announced its first substantive Large Business and International Division ("LB&I") compliance campaigns focused on partnerships and their partners.

After the Supreme Court declined to review the Ninth Circuit's decision in Altera Corporation v. Commissioner, 926 F.3d 1061 (9th Cir. 2019) (cert denied — S. Ct. — (June 22, 2020))...

On June 7, 2019, the Ninth Circuit re-issued a decision in Altera v. Commissioner, upholding an IRS Regulation that had been previously struck down

In Notice 2020-75, the Treasury/IRS announced that proposed regulations will be issued to provide certainty that income tax payments made by partnerships and S corporations...

Ropes & Gray – in conjunction with leading law firms across Europe – has updated its CSRD Transposition Tracker. View the updated Tracker here. The Tracker describes Corporate Sustainability Reporting...