|
USPTO designates as informative a decision applying the Office’s memorandum on Additional Discretionary Institution Considerations – U.S. Manufacturing and Small Business Use of AIA Proceedings
Tesla, Inc. v. Bulletproof Property Management, LLC, IPR2026-00204, Paper 14 (Director June 15, 2026) (informative)
In this decision, the Director declines to discretionarily deny institution where: (1) the trial date in the co-pending parallel district court litigation was vacated and the petitioner submitted a broad stipulation, thereby allowing the AIA review to function as an alternative to the co-pending litigation; (2) the petitioner demonstrated an apparent Office error; and (3) the petitioner brought an early challenge to the patents. The Director further explains that the petitioner provided evidence of U.S. manufacturing specific to the accused products, which also weighed against discretionary denial.
|
|
|
Having trouble accessing links in this email? Your email server security software may be altering the links. Contact your IT or email administrator and ask them to "allow-list" links-1.govdelivery.com and links-2.govdelivery.com to ensure you can access all content in this communication.
Stay connected with the USPTO by subscribing to regular email updates. Visit our subscription center at www.uspto.gov/subscribe to update or change your email preferences.
This email was sent from an unmonitored mailbox. To contact us, please visit our website www.uspto.gov/about/contacts. To ensure that you continue to receive our news and notices, please modify your email filters to allow mail from subscriptioncenter@subscriptions.uspto.gov.
|
|
|
|
