RM Successfully Defeats Two Patent Validity Challenges before the Patent Trial and Appeals Board.

Adam Sanderson defeated two, separate petitions for Inter Partes Review (IPR), both of which were filed by one of the nation’s largest media and cable television companies. Mr. Sanderson’s client is the owner of U.S. Patent No. 8,656,431, a technology relating to the delivery and organization of streaming video television programming. An IPR is a third-party challenge to a patent’s validity and is heard before the Patent Trial and Appeals Board (PTAB) at the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). To determine whether either petition for IPR could be heard on a substantive basis, the PTAB had to first decide whether there was a sufficient legal basis to “institute.” The PTAB determined, based on the arguments and evidence presented by Mr. Sanderson and the RM team, that there was “not a reasonable likelihood that Petitioner would prevail in showing at least one of the challenged claims is unpatentable.” Based on these rulings, the PTAB declined institution and the patent remains valid. Click here and here to read about the two favorable PTAB decisions.