IPR of pre-AIA patents isn’t unconstitutional, finds Fed Circuit

In a defeat for biotech company Celgene, the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has concluded that the retroactive application of inter partes review (IPR) proceedings to a pre-American Invents Act (AIA) patent isn’t unconstitutional.

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