Mealey's (August 14, 2018, 1:56 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — In an Aug. 10 amicus curiae brief, ACT | The App Association tells the Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals that because the inter partes review (IPR) procedure “is neither a suit nor a private party’s complaint,” a state “cannot countermand” a decision by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) to institute IPR by invoking sovereign immunity (Regents of the University of Minnesota v. LSI Corporation, et al., No. 18-1559; Regents of the University of Minnesota v. Ericsson Inc., Nos. 2018-1560, -1561, -1562, -1563, -1564, -1565, Fed. Cir.)....