Taylor Stemler is an associate attorney with Merchant & Gould’s Minneapolis, Minnesota office. As a registered patent attorney, Taylor focuses his practice on both patent prosecution and intellectual property litigation.
From inventors to businesses, Taylor helps his clients secure patent protection and assert their rights over their intellectual property. He primarily serves the mechanical and electrical industries. Yet, Taylor prides himself on having a broad technical knowledge base, allowing him to straddle multiple industries at once to develop the best legal solutions for his clients.
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) has undergone significant procedural shifts over the past few years, particularly with respect to discretionary denial of institution of trial proceedings under 35 U.S.C. § 314(a). One significant ground under which discretionary denial is exercised is provided by the controversial six-factor test first articulated in Apple Inc. v. Fintiv, Inc., IPR2020-00019, which allows the PTAB to deny institution of an inter partes review (IPR) petition when parallel district court litigation is pending.