Federal Circuit reverses PTAB for shifting burden of proof to patent owner

July 27 2016

The Federal Circuit concludes that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board erred in shifting the burden of proof on obviousness in this IPR from the petitioner to the patent owner, in In re Magnum Tools International

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