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THRYV, INC. v. CLICK-TO-CALL TECHNOLOGIES, LP 

Opinion of the Court 

Judicial review of §315(b) rulings, moreover, would do lit-
tle to serve other statutory goals.  The purpose of §315(b), 
all agree, is to minimize burdensome overlap between inter 
partes review and patent-infringement litigation.  Brief for 
Petitioner 24; Brief for Federal Respondent 36; Brief for Re-
spondent Click-to-Call 37.  Judicial review after the agency
proceedings  cannot  undo  the  burdens  already  occasioned.
Nor are §315(b) appeals necessary to protect patent claims
from wrongful invalidation, for patent owners remain free 
to appeal final decisions on the merits.  §319. 

IV 

Click-to-Call advances a narrower reading of §314(d).  In 
Click-to-Call’s view, which the dissent embraces, post, at 6– 
18, the bar on judicial review applies only to the agency’s 
threshold  determination  under  §314(a)  of  the  question
whether the petitioner has a reasonable likelihood of pre-
vailing.  Section 314(d) addresses the “determination by the 
Director whether to institute inter partes review under this 
section”  (emphasis  added),  and,  Click-to-Call  maintains, 
§314(a) contains “the only substantive determination refer-
enced in” the same section as §314(d).  Brief for Respondent
Click-to-Call 16.  This interpretation, Click-to-Call argues, 
supplies a clear rule consonant with the presumption favor-
ing judicial review.  Cf. supra, at 4–5 (Federal Circuit’s en 
banc Wi-Fi One decision). 

Cuozzo is fatal to Click-to-Call’s interpretation.  Section 
314(d)’s review bar is not confined to the agency’s applica-
tion  of  §314(a),  for  in  Cuozzo  we  held  unreviewable  the 
agency’s  application  of  §312(a)(3).   579  U. S.,  at  ___–___ 
(slip  op.,  at  7–8).  Far  from  limiting  the  appeal  bar  to
§314(a) and “nothing else” as Click-to-Call urges, Brief for
Respondent  29,  the  Court’s  opinion  in  Cuozzo  explained
that the bar extends to challenges grounded in “statutes re-
lated to” the institution decision.  579 U. S., at ___ (slip op., 
at 11).