Sorry IG - the law has shifted to the Patent Owners. Patent inventors are UOIP common share holders.
The infringers and their shyster lawyers (billable hours from delays until Mr. Deep Pockets is broke) are in for a rude awakening. The days of endless IPR from RPI's (Real Parties of Interest) is over. Arris learned the hard way. Time barred because they knew in 2015 but waited to long to file.
Scott Mckeown: Looking forward, there will be more precedent on the patent owner side – and what I mean by that is what I've spoken about earlier; this idea of weighing equities. And now that the USPTO director, under the new standard operating procedures that were recently issued a few months back for the Board, has the power to essentially make precedent in cooperation with the chief judge, the Board will be able to make more precedent and issue it faster. And the director has indicated an interest in recalibrating or rebalancing the system in favor of patent owners. So I think going forward, it will continue to be a challenge for petitioners and patent owners alike to navigate the system, but for patent owners, there's certainly a significant light at the end of the tunnel that wasn't there in 2012.
