Post-Grant Proceedings Before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (Second Edition) serves as a comprehensive reference guide to each stage of a post-grant proceeding, from initiation and discovery through claim amendments, oral hearings, Federal Circuit appeals, and issues arising from co-pending district court litigation. 

Highlights of this release include: 

• Chapter 3, Petition for Inter Partes Review, covers the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s recently increased scrutinization of real parties in interest (RPIs) disclosures 

• Chapter 4, Request for Discretionary Denial and Patent Owner Preliminary Response, integrates a new focus on Interim Director Discretionary Denial. This chapter also covers the permitted arguments which may be accepted in requests for discretionary denial. 

• Chapter 7, Sanctions, features analysis of sanctions for violating stipulations. It also includes developments in Spectrum Solutions LLC v. Longhorn Vaccines & Diagnostics, LLC  

• Chapter 16, Ex Parte Reexamination, is a new chapter dedicated to the statutory and regulatory framework, procedural mechanics, and strategic considerations that are involved in ex parte reexamination 

• Updates to the Index 

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