New PTAB Informative Decision Demands MPF Construction and Parallel Litigation Consistency

PTAB designates as informative a decision addressing a petitioner’s different claim construction positions in district court and at the PTAB

New PTAB Informative Decision Demands MPF Construction and Parallel Litigation Consistency

In a decision newly designated as "informative" by the USPTO, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) provided important guidance on the procedural requirements for inter partes review (IPR) petitions, particularly consistency between IPR proceedings and parallel litigation. Cambridge Mobile Telematics, Inc. v. Sfara, Inc., IPR2024-00952, Paper 12 (P.T.A.B. Dec. 13, 2024). In its decision, the Board exercised discretion to deny the petition bec…