Mealey's (January 3, 2019, 12:34 PM EST) -- ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Efforts by a patent owner and infringement defendant to terminate a pending inter partes review of a claimed offshore drilling patent were unsuccessful on Jan. 2, when the Patent Trial and Appeal Board denied the request without prejudice based upon the parties’ failure to submit unredacted copies of their recently reached settlement agreement (Tesco Offshore Services Inc. v. Weatherford/Lamb Inc., et al., No. IPR2018-01308, PTAB)....