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USPTO PIER Pilot Program Targets PCT Backlog

New ‘Patent Friction Index’ Ranks USPTO Last Among Five Peer Offices

Red Tape Index (RTI), a project of the regulatory intelligence platform Labrynth, published a patent index today placing the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) below...

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

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...

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...

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...

USPTO Tells Fed. Circ. 'Settled Expectations' Is Constitutional

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has urged the Federal Circuit to reject Google's constitutional challenge to the office's "settled expectations" policy of taking the age of pa...

Intel, Google Fight 'Free Rein' Given To USPTO Head

Intel and Google have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to vacate a Federal Circuit ruling upholding the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office's precedent allowing Patent Trial and Appeal Bo...

USPTO Wants Input On Southwest Outreach Office

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is looking to increase its community outreach in the Southwest and is asking for public input on where it should set up offices in the six-stat...

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 Backs Double Patent Policy Squires Wants Reviewed

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has urged the Federal Circuit to uphold the rejection of a Sanofi patent application for double patenting, days after USPTO Director John Squir...

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...

Squires Institutes 6 Patent Reviews, Rejects 5 Others

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has instituted six patent reviews and denied five other requests in his latest round of decisions.

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.

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...

The USPTO Ends Foreign Pro Se Patent Prosecution

Squires To Review 2024 PTAB Ax That Followed Vidal Ruling

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires on Thursday said he is going to review a 2-year-old Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision that found claims in an EagleView...

Commenters Split on USPTO Proposal to Require RPI Disclosure for Reexams

Following the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO’s) July 2026 proposal to require third-party requesters for ex parte reexamination (EPR) to identify all real parties in int...

USPTO Decries Arbitrator's 'Extreme' Mgmt Rights Threat

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has pushed back on an arbitrator holding that the agency violated union agreements when ending telework arrangements, saying the arbitrator ign...

Big Tech, PTAB Attys Urge Justices To Fix USPTO Power Grab

The Federal Circuit's refusal to curb the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director's power over instituting Patent Trial and Appeal Board challenges has allowed leaders to "wreak...

Unified, Industry Orgs. Again Push Justices On PTAB Policies

Unified Patents, Clearing House Payments subsidiary Askeladden and a series of industry groups have continued pressing the U.S. Supreme Court to accept petitions addressing the U.S...

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 Appeals Review Panel Reaffirms Broad Reach of Double Patenting Doctrine