by John Marlott | Dec 10, 2025 | PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics, Trial Institution
By John Marlott – USPTO Director Squires recently published an open letter announcing that he was “Bringing the USPTO Back to the Future” by assuming responsibility for all IPR and PGR institution decisions. Why the reference to the 1980s movie recently...
by Carl Kukkonen | Nov 26, 2025 | PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics, Real Party in Interest
By Carl Kukkonen and Matt Johnson – The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) has designated as precedential a decision that squarely reaffirms the statutory requirement to identify all real parties in interest (RPI) in AIA petitions. By elevating Corning Optical...
by Matthew Johnson | Nov 17, 2025 | District Court, Federal Circuit Appeal, PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics, Trial Institution
By Thane Bonnett,* Daniel Sloan, and Matt Johnson – On October 17, 2025, the USPTO issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (“Notice”) regarding the rules of practice for inter partes review before the PTAB. The proposed rules do not apply to post grant review...
by David Maiorana | Nov 12, 2025 | Evidentiary Issues, Expert Witnesses, PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics
By David Linden, Dave Maiorana, Thane Bonnett,* and Pranita Dhungana – On October 1, 2025, USPTO Director John Squires issued his first Director Review decision, terminating in whole IPR2024-00465 (“IPR465”) based on unreliable and inconsistent expert...
by Matthew Johnson | Nov 4, 2025 | PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics, Trial Institution
By Adam J. Cook, Daniel C. Sloan, and Matt Johnson – The October 17 Memo from Director Squires marked the end of a distinct discretionary denial era, the Interim Era. Per the memo, as of October 20, all institution decisions (discretionary, non-discretionary,...
by Matthew Johnson | Nov 3, 2025 | PTAB News, PTAB Trial Basics, Trial Institution
By Matt Johnson – On October 31st, the Director issued his first set of summary decisions on IPR institutions, denying institution of 13 cases without comment in a single...
