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  • USPTO Announces New AI Chief, Int'l Pilot, Outreach Office
  • USPTO Fee Setting Authority and PTAB Institution Reform
  • Senate IP Subcommittee Focuses on Fee-Setting, PTAB Rule in USPTO Oversight Hearing

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law360.com /1 month ago

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...

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patentlyo.com /1 month ago

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...

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ipwatchdog.com /3 weeks ago

Senate IP Subcommittee Focuses on Fee-Setting, PTAB Rule in USPTO Oversight Hearing

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director John Squires faced the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on Intellectual Property Tuesday in an oversight hearing pushing...

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patentlyo.com /3 weeks ago

FY2026 Patent Data Update: Grants, Publications, and Cross-Border Inventors

Final FY2026 numbers: 315,825 utility grants, continuing applications at 26% of grants, US-origin share at 39%, published applications down 6%, and cross-border inventor teams on a...

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law360.com /1 month ago

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.

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ipwatchdog.com /1 week ago

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...

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law360.com /1 month ago

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.

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legaltechdaily.com /2 weeks ago

PTAB Grants Patent Owner’s Sealing Motions in IPR2025-01250

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s October 1, 2026 order in IPR2025-01250 grants the Patent Owner’s motions to seal, reinforcing a familiar but important PTAB principle: while Boa...

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ipwatchdog.com /1 month ago

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...

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law360.com /2 weeks ago

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...

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patentlyo.com /1 week ago

PTAB Law School Moot Court Competition Set for Spring 2027

USPTO and IU Maurer announce a Spring 2027 PTAB Law School Moot Court Competition: one brief, APJ panels, and an in-person final in Alexandria. Continue reading this post on Patent...

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patentlyo.com /1 month ago

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...

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legaltechmonitor.com /2 weeks ago

PTAB Grants Patent Owner’s Sealing Motions in IPR2025-01250

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s October 1, 2026 order in IPR2025-01250 grants the Patent Owner’s motions to seal, reinforcing a familiar but important PTAB principle: while Boa...

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ipwatchdog.com /4 weeks ago

Other Barks & Bites for Friday, September 25: UPC Will Hear Noninfringement Claim to Pre-Issue Patent; DEFEND IP Act...

This week in Other Barks & Bites: Regulatory hurdles lead Oracle to send a force majeure notice related to its New Mexico data center project; the companion bill for the DEFEND...

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natlawreview.com /1 month ago

USPTO Adopts Flexible Approach to Markush Group Language

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patentlyo.com /1 week ago

Inter Partes Review (IPR) Filings Collapse to a New Normal

FY2026 closed with about 450 IPR petitions, a third of FY2025. Institution decisions fell to 860, and the grant rate dropped from 69% to 39%. Continue reading this post on Patently...

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legaltechdaily.com /1 week ago

New PGR Targets Shenzhen Torras Technology at the PTAB

A new post-grant review, PGR2027-00004, was filed at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board on October 10, 2026, naming Shenzhen Torras Technology Co., Ltd. in the proceeding. For paten...

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legaltechmonitor.com /3 weeks ago

PTAB Grants Patent Owner’s Motions to Seal in IPR2025-01254

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s October 1, 2026 order in IPR2025-01254 is a useful reminder that while PTAB proceedings are presumptively public, the Board will protect genuine...

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law360.com /1 month ago

USPTO Policies Spur Reps To Float Conditions On Fee Power

Several lawmakers expressed concern at a hearing Wednesday about recent U.S. Patent and Trademark Office policies, including increased denials of patent reviews, and questioned if...

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law360.com /1 month ago

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.

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legaltechdaily.com /2 weeks ago

PTAB Grants Patent Owner’s Motions to Seal in IPR2025-01254

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s October 1, 2026 order in IPR2025-01254 is a useful reminder that while PTAB proceedings are presumptively public, the Board will protect genuine...

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ipwatchdog.com /1 day ago

Other Barks & Bites for Friday, October 23: EUIPO Announces Record Number of Counterfeits Seized in 2025; EPO Study...

This week in Other Barks & Bites: SpaceX reportedly seeks to build nationwide wireless carrier through purchase of 80,000 cellular sites; a joint study to which the European Pa...

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patentlyo.com /1 month ago

OED Orders from Summer 2026

Eleven USPTO discipline orders issued June and July 2026. Most rest on state discipline under 37 CFR 11.804(h), and most respondents never replied. Continue reading this post on Pa...

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legaltechmonitor.com /1 week ago

New PGR Targets Shenzhen Torras Technology at the PTAB

A new post-grant review, PGR2027-00004, was filed at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board on October 10, 2026, naming Shenzhen Torras Technology Co., Ltd. in the proceeding. For paten...

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