Partial-Institution Decisions Blessed by En Banc Federal Circuit

SAS v ComplementSoft (Fed. Cir. 2016) Today, the Federal Circuit denied SAS’s en banc request challenging the USPTO’s approach to partial-institution of inter partes review petitions.  In a substantial number of cases, the PTO only partially agrees with the IPR petition and thus grants a trial on only some of the challenged claims.  In the present […]