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Innovation Alliance Pushes for Trump Admin to Finalize Proposed PTAB Changes

On the eve of the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO’s) Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to revise the rules of practice for the Patent Trial...

AI Innovation and PTAB Shifts Rewrite Patent Litigation Playbook for US Companies

The survey findings suggest that companies are becoming more selective about PTAB filings, investing more in upfront patent-validity analysis and district court litigation.

Issa Hesitant to Renew USPTO Fee-Setting Authority Amid PTAB Changes

The House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, Artificial Intelligence, and the Internet held an oversight hearing today to consider its role in ren...

USPTO Plan To Limit AIA Reviews Is In White House's Hands

Rules proposed by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to place new limits on patent challenges are being scrutinized by a White House agency, which has held dozens of meetings wit...

The 24-Month Provisional: A Better Way for Inventors to Test the Market

Congress should let provisional applications be renewable for an extra year, and then publish them if a nonprovisional is not filed. Filing a nonprovisional is a big deal for small...

USPTO Announces New AI Chief, Int'l Pilot, Outreach Office

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has a new leader for artificial intelligence, is participating in a pilot program for a global intellectual property recordation system and is...

Preexamination III: Conception, Inventorship, and the Limits of Landscape

Invention requires conception U.S. inventorship requires invention and invention requires conception. The USPTO’s revised inventorship guidance states the governing standard in the...

USPTO Fee Setting Authority and PTAB Institution Reform

The Senate CR would extend USPTO fee setting authority only to December 11, putting renewal in play alongside PTAB discretionary denial reform. Continue reading this post on Patent...

Squires Grants 4 PTAB Petitions, Rejects 3 In New Drop

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has instituted four new America Invents Act reviews at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board and turned down three in his newest...

USPTO Adopts Flexible Approach to Markush Group Language

NCS Multistage Inc. v. Nine Energy Service, Inc.: Private Sales Are Not Necessarily Public Disclosures Under the AIA

In NCS Multistage Inc. v. Nine Energy Service, Inc., the Federal Circuit held that a patentee’s prior commercial sale of a device embodying the invention does not qualify as a “pub...

IP — Federal Circuit Tightens the Grace Period: What a Private Sale Means for Your Patent Rights

On September 14, 2026, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit issued its decision in NCS Multistage Inc. v. Nine Energy Service, Inc., No. 2025-1000 (Fed. Cir. Sept. 14,...

Section 89A: International and national phases of application

Section (89A.01 - 89A.26) last updated: October 2026.

USPTO Sets Radiation Monitoring Patent Order As Informative

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has added weight to a Patent Trial and Appeal Board order from earlier this year that undid a decision rejecting an RNA patent application.

Correcting the Uncorrectable: AI-Assisted Inventorship and Section 256

Under 35 U.S.C. Section 256, one can only correct an inventorship error when the underlying facts and the affected parties can actually be identified, and when the statutory correc...

Section 99A: Power of Patents Court to order report

Sections (99A.01 - 99A.04) last updated last updated October 2026.

Squires Confirms PTAB Judges Will Resume Institution Calls

Administrative patent judges will soon resume deciding whether Patent Trial and Appeal Board challenges will be instituted on the merits, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director...

Albright Tells Inventors That Attys Should Talk A Lot Less

Former U.S. District Judge Alan Albright told attendees at a US Inventor conference Thursday that litigators should speak less in jury trials, while current and former U.S. Patent...

Squires Grants 10 Patent Reviews, Rejects None

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has instituted 10 more Patent Trial and Appeal Board petitions, largely in the pharmaceutical space.

Amici Tell Justices to Rein In USPTO’s ‘Settled Expectations’ Doctrine

Following a July petition for writ of certiorari filed by Kahoot AS! asking the U.S. Supreme Court to consider whether the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO’s) “settled exp...

Federal Circuit Confirms § 112(a) Support Required for a Reference’s Provisional Prior-Art Date

Ex-Patent Commissioner Joins IP Advocacy Group Board

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's former acting patent division leader has been named as a new advisory board member of the Council for Innovation Promotion after leaving the...

Fed. Circ. Presses Inventor On SAWS Bias Challenge

Federal Circuit judges appeared skeptical of an inventor's argument that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's controversial and now discontinued "sensitive" patent applications p...

Apple Targets Patent in New PTAB Challenge, IPR2026-00500

Apple Inc. has filed a new inter partes review petition at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, opening IPR2026-00500 on September 19, 2026. For patent litigators and in-house IP tea...