Parties not wishing to have agreements unrelated to the settlement made of record before the PTAB should not refer to those agreements in the PTAB settlement agreement. Any agreement referenced in a ...

Following the America Invents Act, a petition for inter partes review (“IPR”) has become a common method for challenging the validity of a patent before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) at ...

Lenders usually want to have collateral for the loans they provide to protect their interests in case the borrower defaults on the loan and can no longer pay back the amount that is due. A ...

“The Board explained that the parties’ interpretation of § 317(b) as requiring the filing of only collateral agreements between the parties would ‘allow parties to IPR proceedings to circumvent the ...