In the 63 Final Written Decisions issued by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board in March, the Board cancelled 559 (65.00%) of the instituted claims and declined to cancel 251 (29.19%) of the instituted claims. Patent owners conceded 50 (5.81%) of the instituted claims through motions to amend or disclaimer. These numbers are considerably better for patentees than the February 2016 numbers, where 79.45% of all instituted claims were cancelled and only 18.12% of instituted claims survived.
