Patent Board Sets Precedents for Real Parties in Interest (1)

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has laid out new guidance to help patent challengers correctly identify outside parties that might have an interest in their case.

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board April 16 declared three separate decisions that relate to petitions for administrative reviews of patent claims to be precedential. Petitioners that bring patent challenges to the board—typically to try to kill patent claims at the center of infringement litigation—must identify all real parties in interest as a routine part of the proceeding

The board previously held that if a petitioner included incorrect or missing information about real ...