San Diego Partner Kerry Taylor was quoted in “Once A Mystery, PTAB Remands Start To Take Shape,” an article published in Law360.
Excerpt: It’s been almost five years since the Patent Trial and Appeal Board was introduced, and attorneys are starting to get some answers to a long-standing question: What happens when the Federal Circuit sends a case back to the board?
Although inter partes reviews first became available in September 2012, the Federal Circuit didn’t begin to rule on appeals from those proceedings until 2015. With no real guidance for remand, PTAB practitioners haven’t really known what to expect when that happens.
But as more decisions start to cycle through the system, some trends have started to emerge.
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