Intellectual Property

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Chris, Iowa currently running a roughly $1.2 billion general fund deficit, and, uh, as Karen also mentioned-

Mm-hmm

Yeah, low-key.

Uh, welcome to Real Estate Today's Intellectual Property.

It's Ace Ventura, uh, Nature Calls.

Shickickow.

Definitely when we were going through the Lord of the Rings process.

this is another series, Intellectual Property, that I have meant to read and have avoided for years and years because it's a series that my mother really likes.

And that was the whole thing with Lord of the Rings from the get-go, right? I feel as though somebody will take my nerd card, they find out I haven't read it.

Dune is very high up on a very similar list.

I think imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

And of course, he wrote a

14-book series.

They branched out significantly from just like, oh, it's a desert-dwelling people who's really good at fighting.

And I saw that I was low on a loan on a journey.

I was getting them from IPR.

And IPR was like, oh, we have one copy of a loan on a journey left.

I'm like, well, I'll take that one.

It's not going to be much.

Shoot me an email when it's in.

I'll steal it from you immediately.

Unfortunately, IPR doesn't do that.

But the two other types of post-grant proceedings still exist today.

One is the inter-parties review or what we call IPRs and then post-grant reviews, PGRs.

The primary difference between the two is that inter-parties reviews are limited in the types of challenges that you can bring to patents.

So in particular, for IPRs, when you challenge a patent that has been issued, you are only able to rely on prior, you know, patents, prior art patents or other printed publications.

So, you know, journal articles, other types of publications that will show that the patent that you're challenging was either anticipated by this prior art or made obvious by the prior art.

And so it was a very, IPRs allow you only to challenge under those limited conditions.

PGRs, by contrast, allow petitioners to challenge issued U.S. patents on basically all of the different types of grounds for invalidity that you can make.

So that includes anticipation and obviousness that are covered by IPRs.