PTAB Precedential Ruling: Expert Declaration Devoid of Supporting Evidence Dooms IPR Petition
By EsqSocial Corporation 27/03/23
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board recently rejected an inter partes review petition that relied on a conclusory and unsupported expert declaration. The expert’s written testimony, which repeated portions of the petition verbatim, did not provide the necessary evidence to support the conclusion that one of skill would have understood the prior art as either teaching a limitation or rendering obvious the claims at issue....
By: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP