The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has been hit with its fair share of criticism, with one influential jurist even calling it a “death squad” for patents. But Tina Chappell, Intel’s associate general counsel and director of intellectual property policy, doesn’t buy that criticism.
Speaking on Monday at the Intellectual Property Owners Association’s annual meeting in New York City, Chappell argued that PTAB serves an important goal—namely, weeding out low-quality patents—and that it’s getting better every year. “We have a patent quality problem. That’s not really contested,” Chappell said during a panel discussion. “We have struggled for decades to solve that [problem] … but the reality is, we still have too many patents that really shouldn’t have been issued in the first place.” PTAB is a “cost-effective, fast way” to invalidate those patents, she said.
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