9 March 2022PatentsRick Bisenius

A slow year for PTAB precedential decisions

After a relatively busy 2020 in which the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) designated over a dozen opinions as either precedential (11) or informative (4), the PTAB did not designate a single opinion as precedential or informative during the 2021 calendar year.

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