(September 15, 2017, 8:24 AM EDT) -- ALEXANDRIA, Va. — An expanded panel of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board on Sept. 6 announced that it won’t reconsider its decision to deny five separate requests for inter partes review by General Plastic Industrial Co. Ltd., saying “multiple, staggered petition filings, such as those here, are an inefficient use of the inter partes review process and the Board’s resources” (General Plastic Industrial Co. Ltd. v. Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Nos. IPR2016-01357, IPR2016-01358, IPR2016-01359, IPR2016-01360, IPR2016-01361, PTAB)....