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29Jun

Buyer Beware: Post-Facto Mergers a New Potential IPR Killer

Overturning prior PTAB precedent, the Federal Circuit has now held that post-facto business mergers that create a new real-party-in-interest (“RPI”) trigger the one-year bar date for filing IPR petitions on patents asserted in litigation against the...
By: Foley & Lardner LLP
Source Url: https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/buyer-beware-post-facto-mergers-a-new-48794/

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