Will The Real Party in Interest Please Stand Up

And the main text to:  Petitions for inter partes review (IPR) or post-grant review (PGR) proceedings must identify each real party in interest (RPI) under 35 U.S.C. § 312(a)(2) and 35 U.S.C. § 322(a)(2).  Stay up to date on the set of factors the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) uses to determine whether this threshold requirement is met with this easy-to-use tracker of precedential and informative decisions by the Board.  

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