Patent Trial & Appeal Board Finds Obscure Russian Doctoral Thesis Qualifies as Prior Art
By EsqSocial Corporation 21/08/15
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (Board) recently provided important guidance for prior art “printed publications” asserted in invalidity challenges under the 2011 Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) concerning a doctoral thesis cataloged at the...
By: Ballard Spahr LLP