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Federal Circuit Holds That PTAB's Determination on Whether the One Year Time-Bar Is Triggered in <i>Inter Partes</i> Review Is Reviewable on Appeal

By Jon E. Wright and Pauline M. Pelletier
February 01, 2018

On Jan. 8, 2018, eight months after the oral argument, the Federal Circuit issued its significanten banc decision inWi-Fi One, LLC v. Broadcom Corporation, No. 2015-1944, 2018 WL 313065 (Fed. Cir. Jan. 8,

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