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Per new guidelines, ITC proceedings, patent owner seeks USPTO director review

By Melissa Ritti ( April 4, 2025, 15:11 GMT | Insight) -- RAI Strategic Holdings yesterday asked US Patent and Trademark Office Acting Director Coke Morgan Stewart to intervene and quash an inter partes review, or IPR, instituted by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board last month. In support, RAI points to the USPTO’s recent guidelines on discretionary denials of IPR — updates which now factor in parallel proceedings before the US International Trade Commission, where RAI and RJ Reynolds have already accused IPR petitioner Shenzhen Kangvape Technology Co. of infringement.Patented vape technology singled out in March for inter partes review, or IPR, by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board yesterday formed the basis of a request for review by US Patent and Trademark Office Acting Director Coke Morgan Stewart....

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