Analysing âTakings Clauseâ challenges to PTAB reviews
04-05-2021
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26-09-2016
SCOTUS has refused to review a constitutional challenge to reviews at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, affirming an earlier decision holding that a patent is not private property. David McCombs, Eugene Goryunov, Jonathan Bowser, and Judy He of Haynes and Boone report.
The US Supreme Court denied
writ of
certiorari in
Christy v US (2021), declining to consider a constitutional challenge under the Fifth Amendment’s “Takings Clause” to Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) post-grant review proceedings.
This leaves in place decisions by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit as controlling law. Consequently, this article reviews Takings Clause-based constitutional challenges to America Invents Act (AIA) post-grant proceedings.