Legal Opinion
PGS GEOPHYSICAL AS v. IANCU
Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Decided June 7, 2018No. 2016-2470, 2016-2472, 2016-2474PublishedCited by 43 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Taranto, Circuit Judge.
*1357 PGS Geophysical AS owns U.S. Patent No. 6,906,981, which describes and claims methods and systems for performing "marine seismic surveying" to determine the structure of earth formations below the seabed. WesternGeco, L.L.C., a competitor of PGS's, filed three petitions requesting inter partes reviews (IPRs) of claims 1-38 of the '981 patent. The Patent Trial and Appeal Board of the Patent and Trademark Office (PTO), acting as the PTO Director's delegate, instituted three IPRs, but it specified for review only some of the claims WesternGeco challenged and only some of…
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