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17 March 2016AmericasChristopher Jagoe and James McConnell

The role of healthy sales in IPR

The commercial success of a patented life sciences invention generally fails to persuade the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) that it is evidence of non-obviousness in inter partes review (IPR) trials.

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