{"id":1459,"date":"2017-03-09T11:49:25","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T16:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=1459"},"modified":"2017-03-09T11:49:25","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T16:49:25","slug":"ipr-the-odds-still-favor-petitioners-and-greatly-favor-smart-petitioners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=1459","title":{"rendered":"IPR &#8211; The Odds Still Favor Petitioners, and Greatly Favor Smart Petitioners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The USPTO&#8217;s most recently published IPR statistics show that the odds still greatly favor the patent challenger:<a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IPR-1-31-2017-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-1461 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IPR-1-31-2017-1-1024x752.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IPR-1-31-2017-1-1024x752.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IPR-1-31-2017-1-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IPR-1-31-2017-1-768x564.jpg 768w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IPR-1-31-2017-1-409x300.jpg 409w, https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/IPR-1-31-2017-1.jpg 1046w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Given that a settlement (presumably), a request for adverse judgment, and a finding of patentability are all good outcomes for the patent challenger, patent challengers have &#8220;won&#8221; 58.4% of the time, and when you add in invalidation at least some of the time, then the patent challenger improves its situation 63.9% of the time.<\/p>\n<p>The odds are even better for petitioners who do their homework and present a grantable petition. \u00a0For petitions for which trial is instituted,\u00a0the challengers win 77.8% of the time, and at least improve their situation 86.4% of the time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The USPTO&#8217;s most recently published IPR statistics show that the odds still greatly favor the patent challenger: Given that a settlement (presumably), a request for adverse judgment, and a finding of patentability are all good outcomes for the patent challenger, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=1459\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inter-partes-review"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1462,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions\/1462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}