Certiorari Needed In Dispute Over Inter Partes Review, Apple Tells High Court

Mealey's (January 7, 2022, 8:22 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — Answering the second brief filed in opposition to its petition for certiorari over the appealability of a decision by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) on whether to institute inter partes review (IPR), Apple Inc. tells the U.S. Supreme Court in its Dec. 28 reply brief that the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals incorrectly deemed such decisions unappealable....