What You Can Do to Prevent Multiple Petitions (or How You Can Successfully File One) — Part I: The PTAB’s “Multiple Petition Study”

By George "Trey" Lyons, III — As an endcap to a recent webinar Andrew Williams and I did on the most important PTAB stories from the past year, I addressed the effects that multiple, often serial, petitions can have on patent owners and their patents, and what can be done to alleviate some of the associated stresses — or increase them if you're the petitioner. See Top Stories at the PTAB: What You Need to Know (Mar. 13, 2018), available here. As final topics often go, however, my coverage was constrainedly brief. So, here I will unpack the analysis patent…Original Article