{"id":1590,"date":"2014-10-14T12:25:05","date_gmt":"2014-10-14T16:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/?p=1590"},"modified":"2014-10-18T12:35:51","modified_gmt":"2014-10-18T16:35:51","slug":"if-at-first-you-dont-succeed-dont-try-try-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/?p=1590","title":{"rendered":"If at First You Don’t Succeed, Don’t Try, Try, Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is common for petitioners to file\u00a0multiple petitions challenging a patent.\u00a0 The chief advantage of this strategy is an additional 60 pages of argument for each additional petition filed.\u00a0 Sometimes, however, the petitioner will follow up with a second petition to mop up the claims it “missed” in an earlier petition.\u00a0 The Board has been increasingly sensitive to this, finding that it is really just an\u00a0improper request for rehearing of a question already decided.\u00a0 This was the case in Butamax(TM) Advanced Biofuels LLC v.\u00a0GEVO, Inc.<\/em>, IPR2014-00581, Paper 9 (October 14, 2014), where the Board denied Butamax\u2019s petition calling it “an attempt to request rehearing of a prior decision instituting trial, outside the time period provided in our Rules for such requests” and citing\u00a0Microsoft Corp. v. Enfish, LLC, Case IPR2014-00577, slip op. at 8 (PTAB Sept. 29, 2014) (Paper 12) (denying second petition that is “essentially a rehearing request”).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is common for petitioners to file\u00a0multiple petitions challenging a patent.\u00a0 The chief advantage of this strategy is an additional 60 pages of argument for each additional petition filed.\u00a0 Sometimes, however, the petitioner will follow up with a second petition … Continue reading →<\/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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1590","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-pE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590","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=1590"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1591,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1590\/revisions\/1591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}