Board Rules that Tribal Immunity is Unavailable to Avoid Inter Partes Review Challenge

On Feb. 23, 2018, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“Board”) ruled an assertion of Tribal sovereign immunity would not avoid challenges to certain patents that had been assigned to the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe (“the Tribe”). See Mylan Pharm., Inc. v. Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe, IPR2016-01127, …