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USPTO PIER Pilot Program Targets PCT Backlog

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

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

The USPTO Ends Foreign Pro Se Patent Prosecution

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...

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 Extends Deadline for Requesting Director Review of Decisions Instituting Trial

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...

Squires Grants 4 IPRs, Issues No Discretionary Denials

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has granted four more petitions for inter partes review, bringing his institution rate to just shy of 30%.

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...

USPTO Expands Category A Patent Bar Admission Criteria to Include Biomedical Science Degree

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published a Federal Register Notice Tuesday announcing administrative updates to the General Requirements Bulletin (GRB). The...

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.

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...

New Squires Order Institutes 4 Patent Reviews, Denies 6

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has instituted review of four patents and denied six other petitions in his latest round of decisions.

USPTO Officials Stress That Patent Interviews Are Still Vital

Officials from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Wednesday emphasized that interviews with examiners are still an essential part of the patent prosecution process, disclaimin...

Other Barks & Bites for Friday, August 7: PTAB Precedential Ruling Clarifies OTDP Examination Practices; Eleventh Ci...

This week on Other Barks & Bites: the Ninth Circuit reverses the dismissal of malpractice claims stemming from a pattern of missed case deadlines in a trademark infringement pr...

Modest Rule, Real Traps: The USPTO’s Foreign-Applicant Representation Requirement Takes Effect July 20

The USPTO's final rule, effective July 20, 2026, requires foreign-domiciled patent applicants, inventors, and owners to use a registered patent practitioner. Continue reading this...

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 Appeals Review Panel Reaffirms Broad Reach of Double Patenting Doctrine

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...

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 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...

A USPTO Docketing Change Behind the Terminal Disclaimer Collapse

Terminal disclaimers hit a 2008 low. The cause was not Cellect or Allergan but a USPTO docketing change in which applications examiners took up. Continue reading this post on Paten...

PTAB ARP Issues Precedential Decision on Obviousness-Type Double Patenting, Asks CAFC for More Clarity

An Appeals Review Panel (ARP) of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s (USPTO’s ) Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) today issued a decision on sua sponte rehearing reversing a...