USPTO Acting Director Coke Morgan Stewart announced that she will personally decide whether to deny each petition challenging a patent on discretionary grounds before the Patent Trial and Appeal ...

Our conversation this week is about PTAB practice and how it has evolved over the last several months; we specifically ...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has finalized its rule formalizing the interim Director Review process the Office has been following for Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) decisions ...

On March 26, 2025, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office released a memorandum introducing a new interim process for handling institution decisions in inter partes reviews (IPRs) and post-grant ...

The board issued a decision, in which it entered new grounds for rejection. See Ex parte Chamberlain, appeal 2022-001944 (P.T.A.B. Jan. 10, 2023). The board entered the same written description ...