Estoppel applies to grounds not in IPR petition. Estoppel applies for all grounds not in petition for claims challenged in a petition. See California Institute of Technology v. Broadcom Limited, et al., 20-2222, Feb. 4, 2022 and Feb. 22, 2022 errata sheet.
Estoppel does not apply to claims not challenged. The CAFC held that estoppel arising on a final written decision in two simultaneously filed IPRs required dismissal of a third simultaneously filed IPR which asserted different grounds against the same claims. The court noted that petitioner could have filed multiple petitions addressing different subsets of the claims, as opposed to different subsets of the grounds. In so doing, the court indicated that IPR estoppel “applies on a claim-by-claim basis.” Intuitive Surgical v. Ethicon, 2022 WL 414252, Feb. 11, 2022.
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