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Both the old IPX and the new IPR processes serve the same primary function - providing a mechanism for a third party to petition the PTO to institute a review proceeding of an issued patent in an effort to establish invalidity based on anticipation and/or obviousness.[3]
The most important difference between the old IPX and the new IPR is the how the PTO performs its patent validity review function. In the old IPX process, requests were adjudged by a patent examiner (other than the original examiner) in the same art unit involved in the initial prosecution.[7] If an IPX request was granted, the granting examiner usually conducted the formal reexamination.[8] In contrast, IPR petitions and patentability questions are weighed by a panel that includes three technically-trained Administrative Patent Judges from the newly-formed Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”).[9]