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USPTO PIER Pilot Program Targets PCT Backlog

Inventors, USPTO Agree On Scope Of Patent Program Suit

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and a pair of inventors have agreed that a review program referenced by Trump administration official Edward Martin was outside the scope of a...

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...

Squires Grants 6 Patent Petitions, Denies 4 In New Order

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has granted six requests for America Invents Act patent reviews and rejected four in his latest batch of decisions.

USPTO’s PTAB Rulemaking Signals a Major Shift in IPR Practice

The USPTO appears poised to finalize a significant revision to Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) practice. A final rule titled Revision to Rules of Practice Before the Patent Tr...

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...

USPTO eGrants Update: New Opt In Requirement for Physical Ceremonial Patent Copies

USPTO eGrants Update- New Opt In Requirement for Physical Ceremonial Patent Copies

Reexams Reach Record High As PTAB Reviews Hit Low

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's second quarter saw the agency receiving more requests for ex parte reexamination and fewer petitions for America Invents Act reviews than any...

Latest Squires Patent Review Order Grants 1, Denies 3

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires granted one petition for an America Invents Act patent review and rejected three others in his latest order on institution de...

Squires Says RPIs Must Be Named If They Can Control Cases

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director explained why he rejected Viance LLC's challenge of a Koppers Performance Chemicals Inc. patent, faulting Viance for failing to disclo...

Large Cos., Foreign Filers Winning At USPTO, Report Finds

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has been leaving independent inventors behind with patent grants, instead favoring large corporations based in the U.S. and abroad, according t...

USPTO Appeals Review Panel Reaffirms Broad Reach of Double Patenting Doctrine

USPTO Adopts Flexible Approach to Markush Group Language

The Risks And Rewards Of 3 Patent Review Pilot Programs

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's new pilot programs seek to reduce the patent examination backlog by offering opportunities for faster review, but applicants should proceed c...

Tesla Tells Justices USPTO Is 'Gutting' Patent Reviews

Tesla Inc. has become the latest company to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to review limits that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has put on patent challenges, arguing that the off...

CNIPA Releases Revised Measures for Administration of Priority Examination of Patents Excluding Foreigners

Provisional Prior Art

How a reference gets its provisional filing date as prior art after the Federal Circuit rejected thirteen years of USPTO examination policy. Continue reading this post on Patently-...

How 'Markedly Different' Test Shapes Patent Eligibility Debate

Following last month's U.S. Senate hearing on the proposed Patent Eligibility Restoration Act, it is important to examine how courts and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office have a...

Ex-Greenberg Traurig Atty Named Acting Patent Commish

A former principal shareholder at Greenberg Traurig LLP has been promoted to acting commissioner for patents at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, according to his LinkedIn prof...

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.

Latest Squires Order Grants 2 Patent Petitions, Denies None

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has issued a brief bulk order instituting a pair of America Invents Act petitions, including a Google challenge to a Valtrus...

USPTO Proposes Rule to Require Statement of RPIs for All Ex Parte Reexam Requests

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today published a Federal Register Notice proposing to amend the rules of practice to require that third-party requests for ex parte re...

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...