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 reviews (PGRs). The Office just...more
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On June 11, 2020, USPTO Director Andrei Iancu authorized an initiative that may apply to an applicant who has filed an earlier foreign patent application or a U.S. provisional patent application and has missed the one-year...more
On March 31, 2020, the USPTO announced that it is permitting applicants, for delays that are based on the ongoing COVID-19 emergency in the United States, to request a 30-day extension of the time allowed to file certain...more