{"id":1897,"date":"2018-01-05T00:04:12","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T05:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=1897"},"modified":"2018-01-05T00:06:38","modified_gmt":"2018-01-05T05:06:38","slug":"the-board-says-that-iprs-are-adjudicatory-proceedings-what-will-the-supreme-court-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=1897","title":{"rendered":"The Board Says that IPRs are Adjudicatory Proceedings &#8212; What will the Supreme Court Say?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/PTAB-decision-denying-11th-Amendment.pdf\">Ericsson Inc. v. Regents of the University of Minnesota<\/a>, [IPR2017-01186, IPR2017-01197,\u00a0IPR2017-01200,\u00a0IPR2017-01213,\u00a0IPR2017-01214,\u00a0IPR2017-01219 (December 19, 2017), Chief Administrative Patent Judge Ruschke, writing for an expanded panel\u00a0of the PTAB, held that 11th Amendment immunity is available to States as a defense in an inter partes review.\u00a0 The 11th Amendment states;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So in holding that the 11th Amendment applies, the Board is conceding that it is exercising the &#8220;Judicial power&#8221; of the United States.\u00a0 This was the issue in <em>Oil States energy Services, LLC v. Greene&#8217;s Energy Group, LLC <\/em>where Petitioner struggled to establish that inter partes reviews are adjudicatory in nature.\u00a0 In Ericsson, the Board conceded the point, stating\u00a0&#8220;IPR is an <em>adjudicatory<\/em> proceeding of a federal agency from which state entities are immune.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately the Board found that Minnesota waived its immunity by enforcing the patents in court.<\/p>\n<p>To the extent that the Supreme Court in Oil States needs to decide whether\u00a0IPR&#8217;s are adjudicatory proceedings involving judicial power, it has the USPTO&#8217;s admission in Ericsson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In\u00a0Ericsson Inc. v. Regents of the University of Minnesota, [IPR2017-01186, IPR2017-01197,\u00a0IPR2017-01200,\u00a0IPR2017-01213,\u00a0IPR2017-01214,\u00a0IPR2017-01219 (December 19, 2017), Chief Administrative Patent Judge Ruschke, writing for an expanded panel\u00a0of the PTAB, held that 11th Amendment immunity is available to States as a defense in an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=1897\">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-1897","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\/1897","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=1897"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1901,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1897\/revisions\/1901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}