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Tools for Challenging Patents Grow in Popularity
October 20, 2014
The Connecticut Law Tribune
The 2012 America Invents Act ushered in three new procedures that allow a petitioner to challenge the validity of one or more patent claims after they have been granted by the PTO: inter partes review, post grant review, and covered business method. This article by Cantor Colburn partner and trial attorney Andrew Ryan and litigation associate Chad Dever, Ph.D., examines the new procedures. Ryan chairs the firm's Post Grant Practice Group, one of the first of its kind in the country.