SCOTUS Series – SAS Institute Inc. v. Matal

This event is generously co-sponsored by the Federal Circuit Bar Association.

Issue in SAS Institute Inc. v. Matal: Whether 35 U.S.C. § 318(a), which provides that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board in an inter partes review “shall issue a final written decision with respect to the patentability of any patent claim challenged by the petitioner,” requires that Board to issue a final written decision as to every claim challenged by the petitioner, or whether it allows that Board to issue a final written decision with respect to the patentability of only some of the patent claims challenged by the petitioner, as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held.

Panel:

Professor Jonas Anderson, American University Washington College of Law, Moderator

Matthew Topic, Loevy & Loevy, Counsel for Respondent

Trenton Ward, Finnegan, Panelist