{"id":1162,"date":"2014-07-23T18:54:12","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T22:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2014-07-31T19:48:57","modified_gmt":"2014-07-31T23:48:57","slug":"inter-partes-review-denied-because-petition-too-hard-to-evaluate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/?p=1162","title":{"rendered":"Inter Partes Review Denied Because Petition too Hard to Evaluate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em>Zetec, Inc. v. Westinghouse Electric Co. LLC<\/em>,\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: large\">IPR2014-00384, Paper 10 (July 23, 2014), the Board declined to institute an inter partes review\u00a0of a petition presenting\u00a0127 grounds of unpatentability.\u00a0 The Board\u00a0advised: <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Although parties are given wide latitude in how they present their cases, the Board\u2019s experience is that the presentation of an overwhelming number of issues tends to detract from the argument being presented . . . . Thus, parties should . . . focus on concise, well-organized, easy-to-follow arguments supported by readily identifiable evidence of record.&#8221; Office Patent Trial Practice Guide, 77 Fed. Reg. 48,756, 48,763 (Aug. 14, 2012).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Board found that the petition did\u00a0not comply with the Board\u2019s rules that a petition must include &#8220;[a] full statement of the reasons for the relief requested,&#8221;\u00a0placed a significant and unfair burden on the Patent Owner to respond\u00a0to underdeveloped arguments for numerous asserted grounds;and placed a\u00a0significant burden on the Board to evaluate fully the numerous grounds and underdeveloped assertions in the Petition to determine whether Petitioner has shown that it would be likely to prevail.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Zetec, Inc. v. Westinghouse Electric Co. LLC,\u00a0IPR2014-00384, Paper 10 (July 23, 2014), the Board declined to institute an inter partes review\u00a0of a petition presenting\u00a0127 grounds of unpatentability.\u00a0 The Board\u00a0advised: &#8220;Although parties are given wide latitude in how they present &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/?p=1162\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ZIpB-iK","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1162"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1163,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1162\/revisions\/1163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}