U.S. Patent Office Grants Syntroleum Inter Partes Review of All Claims of Neste Oil Patent

摘要

Tulsa, Okla.-based Syntroleum Corp. announced September 5 that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTO) decision issued an inter partes review (IPR) of all claims of Neste Oil’s U.S. Patent No. 8,212,094 (‘094 Patent). The decision follows Syntroleum’s filing in March of its IPR petition challenging the validity of Neste’s ‘094 patent. The PTO found that “there is a reasonable likelihood that Syntroleum would prevail with respect to claims 1-20 of the ‘094 patent based on the information presented,” according to Syntroleum in a statement.