Dell v. Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute

Dell, Inc. v. Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute, IPR2015-00549, is an inter partes review grouped with the Board’s representative decisions on institution. It concerns the estoppel provision of 35 U.S.C. § 315(e)(1), which bars a petitioner, its real parties in interest and privies from requesting or maintaining a proceeding before the Office on grounds raised or reasonably could have been raised in an IPR that reached a final written decision.

See estoppel arising from PTAB trials and the inter partes review guide.