As of October 2025, United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director John A. Squires has reclaimed authority to decide all patent review institution proceedings. This responsibility was ...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has announced proposed rulemaking that could fundamentally reshape the Inter Partes Review (IPR) landscape. The proposal aims to make invalidity a “one-and ...

On Friday, the USPTO designated a series of decisions on discretionary denial requests as either precedential or informative, ...

Sheppard Mullin’s Jennifer Ayers reviews modifications to the rules of practice for IPR petitions and considers what practitioners need to know On October 17 2025, the USPTO proposed modifications to ...

A group of conservative leaders on Wednesday sent a letter strongly supporting the USPTO's Notice of Proposed Rulemaking ...

USPTO director John Squires granted the first inter partes reviews and post-grant reviews of his tenure in December 2025 ...

This article covers USPTO’s new rules for discretionary denial of IPR and PGR petitions, focusing on factors like timing, prior rulings, and fairness to balance workload and ensure fair decisions.

July 10, 2025 - Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) post-grant validity challenges — for example, inter partes review — are frequent components of a patent litigation strategy for defendants.

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The odds can be increased for defendants seeking to stay patent litigation in favour of patent office validity review. Jeffrey Totten and Eric Jeschke identify four ways to do this Parties often ask ...

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