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PTAB Allows Patent Owner to Stay its Own Reissue Proceeding, PTAB Litigation Blog

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35 U.S.C. § 315(d) and 37 C.F.R. 42.122(a) vest the PTAB with the power to stay, transfer, consolidate, or terminate any matter pending before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office while an inter partes review involving the same patent is pending. As mentioned in our previous blog post, petitioners have often relied on these provisions to request and obtain stays of co-pending Patent Office proceedings.

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