Google LLC v. Secure Communication Technologies, LLC

Discretionary denial

Outcome record: Institution deniedReviewed against the official PDF

The Director denied institution as a matter of discretion: first by notice on April 28, 2026, then by a reasoned decision of May 15, 2026 ordering that the petition is denied and no trial instituted.^{[1][4][6][25][26]}

Director's Notice of Decisions on Institution: institution denied (discretionary and non-merits considerations); opinion forthcoming April 28, 2026·Director's Decision Denying Institution of Inter Partes Review May 15, 2026

• The challenged patent is U.S. Patent No. 8,116,749 B2, which the patent owner said had been in force for over fourteen years.^[7][12]
• The decision does not reach or list the petition's grounds; it denies institution on discretionary considerations after weighing the parties' settled-expectations and material-error arguments.^[24][21]
• The Director found the petitioner's arguments not persuasive: the petitioner knew of the patent no later than February 2012, and its own actions showed it saw the patent as relevant to its technology space.^[19][20]
• The petition is denied and no trial is instituted; the record supplied for this brief ends with the May 15, 2026 decision.^[25][26][6]

This is a single-matter discretionary denial decided on a holistic assessment of its own record, after the Director found the petitioner's settled-expectations and material-error arguments unpersuasive; it states no broader rule.^[24][19][22]