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ARTICLE · 19 JANUARY 2017

PTAB Monitor: Developments In Inter Partes Review Practice

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As a leader in PTAB practice, we have achieved a number of IPR and PTAB-related "firsts" for our clients, and we remain actively involved on behalf of our clients with PTAB proceedings, as well as in parallel cases at the district court level.

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Originally appeared in PTAB Monitor: Developments in Inter Partes Review Practice

Prepared by members of Kaye Scholer's nationally recognized Patent Litigation group, this issue of PTAB Monitor: Developments in Inter Partes Review Practice provides parties and practitioners with the following timely insights for successfully invalidating or defending a patent before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB):

As a leader in PTAB practice, we have achieved a number of IPR and PTAB-related "firsts" for our clients, and we remain actively involved on behalf of our clients with PTAB proceedings, as well as in parallel cases at the district court level.

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