AIA at 10: Patent Board Proves Durable, Strategies Have to Shift

The law that overhauled the U.S. patent review system hits its 10-year anniversary this week with both backers and opponents saying that although the administrative board it created is likely to persist, there are ways to improve it.

Patent attorneys are sharply divided on the impact the America Invents Act has had on patent law.

Those who represent companies accused of infringement herald the law for providing an efficient, less expensive way to weed out low-quality patents. Those representing patent owners look back on the last 10 years very differently—the group US Inventor is calling it the “decade of stolen ...