BREAKING: High Court Refuses To Change PTAB Claim Construction Test

By Ryan Davis

Law360, New York (June 20, 2016, 10:25 AM ET) -- The U.S. Supreme Court decided Monday that the Patent Trial and Appeal Board can continue to use a claim construction standard to review patents in America Invents Act reviews that is different from the one used in district court, rejecting arguments that the two standards should be aligned.

The high court voted to allow the board to use the so-called broadest reasonable interpretation standard to interpret the claims of patents challenged in the AIA’s inter partes review system, ruling against Cuozzo Speed Technologies LLC, which said...