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PTAB brief leans on Stewart memo for discretionary denial

( March 28, 2025, 15:02 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: Non-practicing entity Intellectual Ventures II argued that a Tesla petition for inter-partes review should be denied citing a new memo from US Patent and Trademark Office Acting Director Coke Morgan Stewart, which changed the discretionary denial process at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Intellectual Ventures argued that the new memo means some Tesla arguments for institution should be rejected, and that the overlapping district court case makes IPR unnecessary.See the brief attached....

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