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The America Invents Act introduced several new procedures for challenging patent validity at the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). One of those procedures is the inter partes review (IPR), which became available on September 16, 2012. The IPR is a procedure for challenging patentability based on patents and printed publications.

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