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Federal Circuit Has Jurisdiction to Review Joinder Decisions in IPRs

FACEBOOK, INC., V. WINDY CITY INNOVATIONS LLC Before Prost, Plager, and O’Malley. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary : The Federal Circuit has jurisdiction to review challenges to the Board's joinder decision in an instituted…

September 8, 2020PTAB2 min read

Same-Party and New-Issue Joinder Impermissible in IPRs

FACEBOOK, INC., V. WINDY CITY INNOVATIONS LLC Before Prost, Plager, and O’Malley. Appeal from the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Summary: An IPR petitioner may not join itself to an earlier IPR in which it was already a party, and may not add new…

March 19, 2020PTAB1 min read