{"id":1629,"date":"2014-10-20T11:17:33","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T15:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/?p=1629"},"modified":"2014-10-25T11:25:58","modified_gmt":"2014-10-25T15:25:58","slug":"if-at-first-you-dont-succeed-dont-try-try-again-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/?p=1629","title":{"rendered":"If at First You Don&#8217;t Succeed, Don&#8217;t Try, Try Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em>Conopco, Inc, v, The Procter &amp; Gamble Co.,<\/em> IPR2014-00628, Paper 21 (October 21, 2014) the Board denied <em>inter partes<\/em> review of\u00a0claims 1\u201323 (all of the challenged claims) of U.S. Patent No. 6,649,155.\u00a0 The Board noted that it\u00a0has discretion to decline to institute an <em>inter partes <\/em>review (35 U.S.C. \u00a7 314(a)), and that one factor it\u00a0may take into account when exercising that discretion is whether \u201cthe same or substantially the same prior art or arguments previously were presented to the Office.\u201d 35 U.S.C. 325(d).\u00a0 The Board\u00a0compared the prior art and arguments raised in the instant petition to those raised in Conopco&#8217;s prior <em>inter partes<\/em> review petition, and determined that the petition raises\u00a0\u201csubstantially the same . . . arguments\u201d that \u201cpreviously were presented to the Office\u201d in the prior petition.\u00a0 This was\u00a0one of several circumstances that informed the Board&#8217;s\u00a0decision to decline to institute review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Conopco, Inc, v, The Procter &amp; Gamble Co., IPR2014-00628, Paper 21 (October 21, 2014) the Board denied inter partes review of\u00a0claims 1\u201323 (all of the challenged claims) of U.S. Patent No. 6,649,155.\u00a0 The Board noted that it\u00a0has discretion to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/?p=1629\">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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ipr"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ZIpB-qh","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629","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=1629"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1632,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions\/1632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aia.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}