Legal Opinion
Cuozzo Speed Technologies, LLC v. Lee
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided June 20, 2016No. 15–446PublishedCited by 276 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Breyer
The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, 35 U.S.C. § 100 et seq., creates a process called "inter partes review." That review process allows a third party to ask the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to reexamine the claims in an already-issued patent and to cancel any claim that the agency finds to be unpatentable in light of prior art. See § 102 (requiring "novel[ty]"); § 103 (disqualifying claims that are "obvious").
We consider two provisions of the Act. The first says:
"No Appeal.-The determination by the Director [of the Patent Office] whether to institute an inter partes review under this…
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