Three Ways to Challenge a Patent: Pros and Cons

When a party challenging a patent decides to litigate, it enters a process that allows extensive discovery, for better or worse. Banner & Witcoff attorneys Craig W. Kronenthal and H. Wayne Porter look at the pros and cons of litigation, inter partes review and ex parte reexamination, with regard to discovery, as well as motions, claim amendments, time required, and the possibility of settlement.