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Is the Broadest Reasonable Interpretation of Claim Terms, as Applied in Inter Partes Review, Converging on the Standard Applied in Litigation?

By Tamara Fraizer on January 3, 2017 Posted in Patent Litigation, Patents

This past summer, the Supreme Court settled the debate about the standard to be applied by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) in construing patent claims – finding its use of the broadest reasonable interpretation (BRI), the approach used by the US patent office for the past century, was proper.1 Its decision left in … Continue Reading