In a complaint under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) filed on October 15, 2013, in the Eastern District of Virginia, Dominion Dealer Solutions LLC accused the USPTO of exceeding its authority when it refused to grant Dominion’s five petitions for Inter Partes Review of patents owned by a competitor, AutoAlert Inc. AutoAlert and Dominion are involved in an infringement lawsuit involving three of the five patents challenged in the IPR petitions. The related litigation had been stayed in light of the IPR petition filings.
