April 10, 2020
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has largely handed Microsoft a victory in its challenges to computer patents owned by a company that had unsuccessfully attempted to use the St. Regis Mohawk tribe's sovereign immunity status to escape review of its patents.
April 12, 2019
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has agreed to review Microsoft's challenges to three computer patents transferred to the St. Regis Mohawk tribe by a company that works with Lockheed Martin on an Army surveillance radar system, rejecting contentions that the inter partes reviews wouldn't serve national security interests.
December 19, 2018
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has decided not to delay Microsoft's challenges to six computer technology patents owned by the St. Regis Mohawk Tribe, which wanted to halt proceedings while it asks the U.S. Supreme Court whether tribal immunity shields the patents from review.