Reflections on Oil States: Are There Silver Linings Amidst the Doom and Gloom?
By contrast, IPRs (as well as inter partes reexamination) are not initiated by the patent owner, nor can the patent owner opt out of IPRs (or inter partes reexamination) without risking having their patent rights invalidated. That makes the patent owner’s participation in IPRs totally involuntary in terms of not …