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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...

USPTO Policy On Discretion to Deny Ex Parte Reexamination Is Contrary to Statute and Precedent

As the institution rate of inter partes reviews (IPRs) has plunged under U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director John Squires, parties have increasingly turned to ex part...

Anonymous No More: Real-Party Disclosure Comes to Ex Parte Reexamination

USPTO would require real-party-in-interest disclosure in every third-party ex parte reexamination request, extending the Director's RPI campaign. Continue reading this post on Pate...

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 Anonymous Reexam Proposal Spurs Concern, Praise

A U.S. Patent and Trademark Office proposal to effectively end the ability to be completely anonymous when requesting patent reexaminations drew numerous concerns from industry and...

USPTO Calls For More Info In Anonymous Reexam Requests

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday called for ending the practice of allowing those requesting patent reexamination to remain completely anonymous, instead proposing a...

Reexam Denial On Ex-BlackBerry Patent Cites Pre-Order Filing

Pointing to a paper filed by patent owner Malikie Innovations Ltd. under a new policy put in place this spring, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected Unified Patents LL...

PTAB Revives Ioengine Data Patent In Roku Reexam Case

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has reversed an examiner's decision to strike claims in an Ioengine LLC data processing patent that was challenged by Roku, faulting the examiner'...

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 Extends Deadline for Requesting Director Review of Decisions Instituting Trial

Squires Nixes PTAB Decision for Petitioner Due to Failure to Explain Inconsistencies with ITC

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director yesterday vacated a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) final written decision (FWD) due to its inconsistency with an Interna...

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...

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-...

Patents and trademark – Patent owner’s ex parte TRO motion is denied

Where a patent owner’s motion for an ex parte temporary restraining order failed to comply with Rule 65, and failed to show irreparable harm, it was denied. Background Plaintiff ow...

Same Patent, Same Light- Director Vacates IPR Decision at Odds With ITC Decision

The director of the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) vacated a Patent Trial and Appeal Board final written decision finding challenged claims obvious where the U...

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...

USPTO Leaders Reinstate Double Patenting Ax In Sanofi Case

A panel including U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires ruled Thursday that a Sanofi patent application must be rejected for double patenting, but questioned wheth...

Ex parte Baurin and the Anti-Harassment Rationale for Double Patenting

Ex parte Baurin sustains double patenting on an anti-harassment theory the USPTO distrusts, with the Federal Circuit's In re Ablynx up next. Continue reading this post on Patently-...

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 Appeals Review Panel Reaffirms Broad Reach of Double Patenting Doctrine

Federal Circuit Rejects Penumbra’s “Ministerial” Test for Provisional Prior-Art Dates

Fed. Circ. Reverses PTAB On Prior Art Issue Over Dental IP

The Federal Circuit on Monday reversed a Patent Trial and Appeal Board decision that invalidated a group of claims in a Dental Monitoring SAS dental imaging patent, finding that a...

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...

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...