United States: RPI: Not Quite A Jurisdictional Requirement

Recently, the Patent Trial and Appeals Board (PTAB) declined to terminate an inter partes review (IPR) proceeding despite the Petitioner’s alleged failure to identify all the real parties-in-interest (RPIs) . Unified Patents, LLC v. Voice Tech Corp. , IPR2020-01018, Paper 46, 7 (December 13, 2021).

In 2020, Voice Tech asserted U.S. Patent No. 10,491,679 (‘679 Patent) against Mycroft AI, Inc., and Unified Patents later filed an IPR petition seeking invalidation of the ‘679 Patent. The petition identified Unified Patents as the only RPI, but Voice Tech disagreed and asserted that Mycroft is an unnamed RPI. Unified Patents, LLC v. Voice […]

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