Coke Morgan Stewart, named on Inauguration Day 2025 as deputy director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and now serving as acting director of the USPTO, has already indicated that she will manage Director...more
Expert testimony plays a critical role in Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) proceedings at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). Thousands of petitions for inter partes review (IPR) and post grant review have been...more
On Jan. 29, 2025, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) released statistics regarding the number and type of contested proceedings brought to the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) in the first quarter of fiscal year...more
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled on Jan. 14, 2025, in Lynk Labs, Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., that published U.S. patent applications may continue to be used as prior art in inter partes...more
A working paper published on Nov. 6, 2024, by Massachusetts Institute of Technology PhD candidate Aidan Toner-Rogers suggests that the patent system may soon see a marked increase in patent application filings due to...more
On Nov. 21, 2024, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Kathi Vidal issued a Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Director Review decision addressing 35 U.S.C. § 315(a)(1) and § 315(b), the statutes that preclude...more
On Oct. 1, 2024, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued a final rule governing Director Review of Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) decisions in contested proceedings brought under the America Invents Act...more