USPTO Director again discretionarily denies IPR over petitioner’s purported links to Chinese state

Context: In February this year, Chinese company Meishan CRRC Fastening System Co. Ltd. filed a petition with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for inter partes review (IPR) of a patent owned by Pittsburgh-based Howmet Aerospace Inc.

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Meishan Fastening is represented by Robins Kaplan’s Cy Morton and Li Zhu.

Howmet is represented by Greenberg Traurig’s Heath Briggs, Trenton Ward, and Joseph Agostino.