Patent attorneys who have primarily focused on work at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board are pivoting, dusting off old skills ...

The year 2025 was one of profound change at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). The magnitude and rate at which changes were implemented is unprecedented.

“Requiring PTAB judges to go back to the office (including for many who are nowhere near a USPTO office and who would have to relocate their entire families) threatens the PTAB’s critical role.” – ...

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The Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard on Monday withstood a second closely watched challenge to its CRISPR-Cas9 patents, as the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) of the U.S. Patent and Trademark ...

After over a year and a half at the helm of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), Director Kathi Vidal has made significant and lasting impacts on the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) ...

The PTAB was, at first, a mystery, and then was filled mostly with challenges against what some practitioners refer to as “junk patents", so those seeking to invalidate valuable pharmaceutical patents ...

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Upon inception of the PTAB in 2012, Congress decreed a minimum for instituting an IPR but no affirmative requirement to do so. 37 C.F.R. §42.108(b); 35 U.S.C. §314(a). As a result, the PTAB has broad ...