Are high PTAB institution rates a sign that the rules are too favourable to petitioners? This was debated during a session at the IPO annual meeting In a session yesterday at the IPO Annual Meeting in ...

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

This article covers USPTO’s new rules for discretionary denial of IPR and PGR petitions, focusing on factors like timing, prior rulings, and fairness to balance workload and ensure fair decisions.

An expert Q&A on the US Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO’s) 2025 guidance memoranda addressing the Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s (PTAB’s) approach to discretionary denials of inter partes review ...

“To the extent any other PTAB or Director Review decisions rely on the Memorandum, the portions of those decisions relying on the Memorandum shall not be binding or persuasive on the PTAB.” – USPTO ...

“Consistent with [the KSR] standard, the Board focused its inquiry on what Feldman would teach or suggest to a person of ordinary skill in the art, rather than limiting itself to what Feldman ...