Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2025
Abstract
The Lynk Labs petition presents the Supreme Court with an opportunity to restore the temporal coherence that Congress built into § 311(b)'s evidentiary framework. By treating "printed publication" as synonymous with any reference that eventually becomes public, the Federal Circuit has transformed IPR into a forum where unexamined, abandoned patent applications can destroy patents that survived the very scrutiny those applications failed to complete. The Court should grant certiorari and hold that a printed publication must be printed and published before the critical date to serve as the basis for an IPR challenge.
Recommended Citation
Dennis D. Crouch,
Lynk Labs: How the Least-Vetted Documents Destroy Issued PatentsUniversity of Missouri School of Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2025-56
(2025).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/facpubs/1346