The PTAB at the Supreme Court – and the Federal Circuit’s Response

The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in the Cuozzo Speed Technologies, LLC v. Lee on April 25, 2016, with a decision expected sometime before the end of June. This will mark the first time that the Supreme Court has reviewed the post-issuance review proceedings of the America Invents Act (“AIA”). This case stems from the first Federal Circuit appeal involving the first final written decision of the first inter partes review (“IPR”) ever filed. The Supreme Court will be reviewing two of the most controversial issues of the new AIA post-grant proceedings: (1) the use of the broadest reasonable interpretation standard for construing claims, and (2) the unreviewability of any decision related to the institution of a PTAB trial.

http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2016/04/05/ptab-at-the-supreme-court/id=67980/