PTAB Holds A Firm Line On Additional Discovery

Law360, New York (February 20, 2015, 10:31 AM EST) -- When Congress created the inter partes review and covered business method review procedures for challenging the validity of an issued patent, it was intended for these processes to be quicker and more cost-effective than challenging patent validity in the district court system.[1] One of the mechanisms Congress utilized for achieving these objectives was limiting the types of discovery allowed as part of the IPR and CBM processes. This was a lofty goal, and pundits questioned whether this restricted scope of discovery could be maintained in practice....

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