US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director Kathi Vidal recently issued a new final rule establishing the process for Director Review of some Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) decisions ...

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 ...

These numbers are for applications disposed since 2016, and show that, without taking abandonments and RCEs during the appeal process into account, 54.7% of appeals make it to the PTAB for a ...

The Fast-Track Appeals Pilot Program won’t be used that often, but it will help firms protect vital inventions faster, and it’s probably here to stay The USPTO’s latest fast track pilot might not be ...

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 ...

United States Patent and Trademark Office, No. 18-1309 (July 2, 2020), in a ruling separate from the merits opinion, the Supreme Court extended this ruling in vacating an attorney fees award ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit said the companies' adversary in the USPTO case, patent owner Unification Technologies, had not shown, opens new tab that Kathi Vidal's previous ...

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 ...