In Oil States Energy Services, LLC v Greene’s Energy Group, LLC, 584 U. S. ____ (2018), the U.S. Supreme Court held that inter partes review does not violate Article III or the Seventh Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. In one of the most highly-anticipated intellectual property cases of the term, the Court rejected the argument that the administrative patent review process is an exercise of “judicial power” that should be reserved to the federal courts under Article III.
