Despite Instituting IPR, PTAB Invites Patent Owner to Re-Raise Challenge to Expert’s Qualifications at Trial

May 16, 2023

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board recently instituted an inter partes review where the patent owner argued that the petitioner failed to establish its expert as a person of skill in the art, which would have rendered the expert’s testimony inadmissible under Kyocera Senco Indus. Tools Inc. v. Intl. Trade Commn., 22 F.4th 1369 (Fed. Cir. 2022)….
By: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Despite Instituting IPR, PTAB Invites Patent Owner to Re-Raise Challenge to Expert’s Qualifications at Trial

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