AIA Estoppel: A New Flavor of Collateral Estoppel And/Or Res Judicata?
October 31, 2018
Webinar
Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO)
As part of the Intellectual Property Owners Association’s webinar series, Finnegan partner Barbara McCurdy will join a panel discussion considering the potential impact of statutory and rule-based estoppel resulting from Final Written Decisions of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. The program will evaluate the likely impact of AIA estoppel at the PTAB and in the district courts; how the terms “skilled searcher,” “diligent search,” and “reasonably could have been expected to discover” should be interpreted for estoppel purposes; and how non-documentary prior art should be handled in a district court.
Tags
America Invents Act (AIA), estoppel, Final Written Decision, Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB)
