Government: Patent Risk Firm Lacked Standing To Appeal After Inter Partes Review

Mealey's (May 17, 2019, 9:55 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a requested amicus curiae brief filed May 9, the U.S. solicitor general tells the U.S. Supreme Court that a “patent risk management” company that initiated an unsuccessful inter partes review (IPR) of another company’s patent did not have standing to appeal the results of the review to the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals because it had no interest in the patent and had suffered no injury from the IPR (RPX Corp. v. ChanBond LLC, No. 17-1686, U.S. Sup.)....