News & Analysis as of

Filing Deadlines Administrative Procedure

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Breaking Down the Bifurcated PTAB Review Process: What the USPTO’s Recent FAQ Drop Reveals

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

Fish & Richardson

PTAB Issues FAQs on Interim Process for Workload Management

Fish & Richardson on

Last week, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) issued a list of FAQs related to the new bifurcated process for discretionary denial established in the March 26 memorandum issued by Acting Director Stewart. The FAQs...more

Jones Day

PTAB Announces a Bifurcated Process for Consideration of IPR and PGR Petitions

Jones Day on

A new interim process for the acting director to exercise discretion as to whether to institute an inter partes review ("IPR") or a post-grant review ("PGR") was announced on March 26, 2025, in which discretionary...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

Allegheny County Moves Tax Appeal Deadline to October 1 - Limited Time for Assessment Relief

Tucker Arensberg, P.C. on

In Allegheny County, tax appeal season has already begun for 2025. For every tax year, County property owners have the ability to file an assessment appeal. ...more

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,...

Updated California Pay Data Reporting Guidance Increases Focus on Remote Employee Reporting

On February 1, 2024, the California Civil Rights Department (CRD), the agency responsible for administering California’s pay data collection, issued updated guidance for the 2023 California pay data reports that are due May...more

Smith Anderson

NC Assumed Business Names (D/B/As) - Deadline for Complying with New Requirements is December 1, 2022

Smith Anderson on

North Carolina law requires individuals and entities engaging in business under an assumed name in the state to file a certificate with the registrar of deeds in the county or counties in which the person or entity engage in...more

Miller Canfield

Procedural Actions Following the Supreme Court Remand in Boechler

Miller Canfield on

Key Takeaways: ..In Boechler P.C., v. Commissioner (“Boechler”), the Supreme Court held that the thirty-day period to petition the Tax Court for review of an adverse determination by the IRS Appeals Office in a collection...more

Harris Beach Murtha PLLC

Reminder: Deadline for Real Property Assessment Appeals is February 18

Property owners who wish to challenge their tax assessment, believing that their property is overvalued on the 10/1/2021 Grand List, only have a few weeks left to file a written appeal with the Board of Assessment Appeals...more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

USPTO Announces Further Extension of Certain Patent Deadlines

In a notice posted on its website last week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that it was further extending the time to file certain patent-related documents and to pay certain required fees....more

Laner Muchin, Ltd.

Seventh Circuit Finds “Substantial Compliance Doctrine” Does Not Apply to Missed Appeal Deadline

Laner Muchin, Ltd. on

The Seventh Circuit recently held, in Fessenden v. Reliance Standard Life Insurance Co., that a plan administrator’s failure to meet a regulatory deadline by which to respond to a disability benefits claim appeal cost the...more

Smart & Biggar

Detailed overview of deadlines and requirements under the new Canadian Patent Rules coming into force on October 30, 2019

Smart & Biggar on

Recently, the government of Canada published the final version of the new Patent Rules (SOR/2019-251) in Canada Gazette, Part II on July 10, 2019. The new Rules and associated amendments to the Patent Act will come into force...more

Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C.

USPTO Announces Sweeping Changes to Motion to Amend Procedures in AIA Trials via Pilot Program

On March 15, 2019, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) launched a pilot program that implements significant changes to motion to amend practice in AIA trials. The Office states that its goal in proposing...more

Knobbe Martens

PTAB Extends Deadline to Decide IPR Motion to Amend in view of Aqua Products

Knobbe Martens on

The PTAB extended the deadline for issuing its IPR final written decision on a motion to amend by up to six months to provide additional time to consider the impact of the Federal Circuit’s recent en banc Aqua Products...more

Jones Day

Delayed Payment Proves Fatal for Cultec’s PTAB Challenge

Jones Day on

Under 35 U.S.C. § 315(b), a petition for inter partes review (IPR) may not be filed more than one year after the date on which the petitioner was served with a patent infringement complaint. Thus, a petition must meet all of...more

14 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 1

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide