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Cite as:  590 U. S. ____ (2020) 

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Opinion of the Court 

“ ‘strong  presumption’  in  favor  of  judicial  review.”    Id.,  at 
___–___  (slip  op.,  at  9–11)  (quoting  Mach  Mining,  LLC  v. 
EEOC, 575 U. S. 480, 486 (2015)).  See Cuozzo, 579 U. S., 
at ___– ___ (slip op., at 9–11) (finding “ ‘clear and convincing’ 
indications . . . that Congress intended to bar review” (quot-
ing Block v. Community Nutrition Institute, 467 U. S. 340, 
349–350 (1984))).

We  reserved  judgment  in  Cuozzo,  however,  on  whether 
§314(d)  would  bar  appeals  reaching  well  beyond  the  deci-
sion to institute inter partes review.  579 U. S., at ___ (slip 
op.,  at  11).  We  declined  to  “decide  the  precise  effect  of 
§314(d) on,” for example, “appeals that implicate constitu-
tional questions.”  Ibid.  Instead, we defined the bounds of 
our  holding  this  way:  “[O]ur  interpretation  applies  where 
the  grounds  for  attacking  the  decision  to  institute  inter 
partes  review  consist  of  questions  that  are  closely  tied  to 
the application and interpretation of statutes related to the
Patent  Office’s  decision  to  initiate  inter  partes  review.” 
Ibid. 

B 
We therefore ask whether a challenge based on §315(b) 
ranks as an appeal of the agency’s decision “to institute an
inter partes review.”  §314(d).  We need not venture beyond 
Cuozzo’s holding that §314(d) bars review at least of mat-
ters  “closely  tied  to  the  application  and  interpretation  of 
statutes  related  to”  the  institution  decision,  579  U. S.,  at 
___ (slip op., at 11), for a §315(b) challenge easily meets that 
measurement. 

Section  315(b)’s  time  limitation  is  integral  to,  indeed  a 
condition on, institution.  After all, §315(b) sets forth a cir-
cumstance  in  which  “[a]n  inter  partes  review  may  not  be
instituted.”  Even  Click-to-Call  and  the  Court  of  Appeals 
recognize that §315(b) governs institution.  See Brief for Re-
spondent  Click-to-Call  1  (§315(b)  is  “a  clear  limit  on  the
Board’s  institution  authority”);  Wi-Fi  One,  878  F. 3d,  at