The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) may not be the “death squad for patents” it was once described as, with a report revealing that patentees are surviving in more than 66% of cases.
According to legal analytics company Lex Machina, which released its “Patent Trial and Appeal Board 2015” report on Thursday, January 21, the patent owner has come out on top in 1,783 of the 2,700 cases filed at the PTAB since September 2012.
Apple and Samsung topped the list of companies that have filed the most challenger petitions.
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