IPR and CBM Statistics for Final Written Decisions Issued in October 2015
November 25, 2015
Authored and Edited by Daniel F. Klodowski; Elliot C. Cook; David C. Seastrunk; Aaron L. Parker
In the 44 Final Written Decisions issued by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board in October, the Board cancelled 469 (79.49%) of the instituted claims and declined to cancel 118 (20%) of the instituted claims. A patent owner conceded 3 (0.51%) of the instituted claims by filing a disclaimer.
On a per-case basis, no instituted or substitute claims survived in 30 (68.18%) of the decisions, all instituted claims survived in 8 (18.18%) of the decisions, and a mixed outcome occurred in 6 (13.64%) of the decisions. A mixed outcome occurs where at least one instituted or substitute claim remains patentable, and at least one is cancelled, in a Final Written Decision.
More detailed cumulative statistics on the Board’s IPR and CBM decisions, updated through November 1, 2015, are available here on the AIA Blog.
Numbers of final written decisions by technology center are available here.
Various other PTAB metrics collected and generated by Finnegan are reserved for the use of Finnegan and its clients.
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