Sughrue Mion attorneys Roman Rachuba, Mark Boland, Raja Saliba, and Dave Emery secured a complete victory on behalf of the Regents of the University of California in inter partes review IPR2024-00761. On October 2, 2025, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board issued its Final Written Decision upholding all challenged claims of U.S. Patent No. 7,487,684, rejecting every invalidity ground asserted by Petitioner, the Boeing Company. This total win preserves the full scope of our client’s patent rights and strengthens its ability to protect its groundbreaking thin-film spallation technology.