December 9, 2016
Federal Circuit’s En Banc Review in Aqua Products Could Upend PTAB Amendment Practice
Originally published in IP Watchdog on December 4, 2016.
—By Paul Margulies
On December 9, 2016, the en banc Federal Circuit will hear argument in In re Aqua Products, Inc. on an issue that has long been troubling patent owners involved in inter partes reviews (IPR)—the difficulty of amending patent claims before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB).
