Amicus Brief Filed In Appeal Asserting Patent Board Incentivizes IPRs

Mealey's (September 18, 2020, 9:49 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Sept. 2 lifted a stay it entered in July in a dispute over two gaming patents; the same day, a nonprofit inventors association filed an amicus curiae brief in the case, urging the appeals court to take up an appellant's assertion that the administrative patent judge (APJ) system employed by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) violates due process (New Vision Gaming and Development Inc. v. SG Gaming Inc., No. 20-1399, Fed. Cir.)....