Henny Penny petitioned for inter partes review (IPR) of Frymaster’s U.S. Patent 8,497,691. The ’691 patent relates to deep fryers and describes a system for measuring the state of cooking oil ...
Experienced PTAB practitioners know that, in an IPR, assuming each claim element is in the asserted prior art, the rubber meets the road on the reason-to-combine arguments. In Henny Penny Corp. v.
“PTAB petitioners must adhere to the requirement that the petition identify evidence that supports the grounds for the challenge to each claim, and a petitioner may not raise a new rationale for ...