Apple To Supreme Court:  Answer Needed On Inter Partes Review Institution

(November 22, 2021, 1:41 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a Nov. 15 reply brief supporting its petition for certiorari, Apple Inc. urges the U.S. Supreme Court to look at “an irrational and unlawful rule” under which the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals is permitted to deny review of a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) decision to not institute inter partes review (IPR) over a patent in suit, arguing that federal law clearly gives the appeals court jurisdiction over such appeals....