PTAB Denies PayPal IPR of Ioengine Patent

2019/10/08

The US Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) has denied PayPal’s request for an inter partes review of a patent, finding that the online payment company has substantial links to another company which is already challenging the patent.
The decision published on October 3, concerned a patent owned by Ioengine (US number 8,539,047 B2) titled “Apparatus, method and system for a tunneling client access point”.
 
In its ruling, PTAB found that the patent was currently the subject of a number of district court proceedings involving both Ioengine and PayPal. Additionally, the patent is also the subject of an inter partes review instituted by electronic transactions company Ingenico.
 
“Thus, there is significant overlap between the challenged claims in PayPal’s petition and in Ingenico’s existing inter partes review,” the board concluded.
 
Source: Wipr