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US PTAB doubles down on settled expectations despite district court stay

By Nick Robertson ( August 5, 2025, 22:44 GMT | Insight) -- The US Patent Trial and Appeal Board invoked discretionary denial against two inter-partes review petitions by Google against Soundclear Technologies yesterday, with Acting Deputy Chief Administrative Patent Judge Kalyan Deshpande writing that settled expectations should apply even though an Eastern District of Virginia judge granted a stay in parallel litigation.“Settled expectations” effectively trumps all in discretionary denial decisions at the US Patent Trial and Appeal Board, Acting Deputy Chief Administrative Patent Judge Kalyan Deshpande wrote yesterday in denying a pair of petitions from Google against patents held by Soundclear Technologies. The decisions reinforce the new settled expectations doctrine and could further reduce the number of petitions filed at the board....

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