In a Director Discretionary Denial decision issued today by Acting Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Coke Morgan Stewart, Procomm International PTE Ltd.’s request to discretionarily deny three petitions for inter partes review (IPR) brought by Ericsson and Verizon Wireless was granted, in part because one of the patents at issue was dismissed from the parallel litigation.
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