Moderator
Jason Romrell—Partner at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP
Panelists
Christopher Geyer—Associate General Counsel at Appian
Jonathan Stroud—Chief IP Counsel at Unified Patents, Inc.
Benjamin Hickman—Associate Solicitor at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (invited)
Andrew Trask—Counsel at Williams & Connolly, LLP
Summary: Where the Patent Trial and Appeal Board decides to scrutinize a challenged patent, it must now address every challenged claim in the petition. As we inch closer to the one-year mark, how has the Supreme Court’s decision in SAS affected practice before the Board? How have the Federal Circuit and district courts dealt with SAS? And what challenges to the post-grant regime are litigants making after Oil States? Our panel of practitioners, in-house attorneys, and a PTO associate solicitor (pending approval) will explore recent developments for estoppel, institution, stays, remands, and constitutional challenges in the wake of SAS and Oil States.
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