In this episode of Podbites, the New York Intellectual Property Lawyers’ Association’s podcast, associate Chris Lisiewski interviews partner Charley Macedo on the importance of the Facebook v. Windy City decision.
The decision, which was issued on September 4, 2020, holding, inter alia, that there is no such thing as same party joinder in IPRs and Section 315(c) is about joinder of parties to a proceeding and not joinder of issues. This decision also brings up a host of related decisions on institution, consolidation, appealability and non-appealability of PTAB decisions, POP panel decisions, the Administrative Procedures Act, Chevron deference, Skidmore deference and obviousness.
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