... Provisions Regarding joinder, § 315(c) permits joinder as a party and reads as follows: If the Director institutes an inter partes review, the Director, in his or her discretion, may join as a party to that inter partes review any person ...
Additionally, the “AIA was designed to encourage the filing of meritorious patentability challenges, by any person who is not the patent owner, in an effort to further improve patent quality.” Coalition for Affordable Drugs VI, LLC v. Celgene ...
But Patent Owner identifies no evidence of any cooperation, collaboration, or collusion between Petitioner and PAN (or anyone else) to take collective action to “crush” or otherwise 41 IPR2022-01151 Patent 9,917,856 B2 injure Patent ...
On appeal, the Federal Circuit considered whether § 315(c) authorizes (1) same-party joinder, i.e., “the joinder of a person as a party to a proceeding in which it is already a party,” and (2) new-issue joinder, e.g., the joinder of “new claims ...