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The USPTO Provides Further Guidance on Discretionary Denials Policy

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The USPTO’s recent guidance on discretionary denials has shifted patent practitioners back to the Fintiv and Sotera Wireless framework. The Prior Framework: Fintiv & Sotera Wireless In Apple Inc. v. Fintiv, Inc., No. IPR2020-00019 (PTAB Mar. 20, 2020), the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (the “Board”) implemented a holistic view of six factors (the Fintiv factors) for determining whether to exercise discretionary denial when there is a parallel, c…
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LexBlog broke the news in on Monday, June 2, 2025.
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