Get Ready For Fed. Circ. Guidance On AIA Trials

Law360, New York (June 2, 2015, 11:13 AM EDT) -- Starting in late 2012, the first petitions were filed for the new adversarial America Invents Act proceedings before the newly formed Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Now, two and a half years later, the first appeals from these new proceedings are being heard by the Federal Circuit. For practitioners, these first decisions are the ones to watch, as they may show the Federal Circuit's general opinion regarding these new administrative proceedings, how the Federal Circuit plans to deal with the increased workload and/or how settled legal principles apply to these new types of proceedings....

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