Petitioner Defends Inter Partes Review Request In Reply To Board

Mealey's (February 13, 2020, 12:01 PM EST) -- ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A medical technology company in a Feb. 11 brief maintains that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board properly instituted inter partes review (IPR) of a patent describing the incorporation of “plasticizers” within a soft tissue graft (RTI Surgical Inc. v. Lifenet Health, No. IPR2019-00573, PTAB)....