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McDermott Will & Emery

Fintiv Guidelines for Post-Grant Proceedings Involving Parallel District Court Litigation

On March 24, 2025, the US Patent & Trademark Office (PTO) released new guidance that clarifies application of the Fintiv factors when reviewing validity challenges simultaneously asserted at the Patent Trial & Appeal Board...more

Womble Bond Dickinson

USPTO Implements Bifurcated Review Process for PTAB Petitions Under New Policy

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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 Board evaluates the merits....more

Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease LLP

New USPTO Processes Put in Place Regarding PTAB Institution Decisions

On March 26, 2025, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced new interim procedures for handling discretionary denials of post-grant proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB).  These changes are...more

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USPTO Issues Memo on Interim Process for PTAB Discretionary Denial Evaluation

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On March 26, 2025, Acting Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Acting Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office Coke Morgan Stewart issued a memorandum that makes several significant...more

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PTAB Announces Bifurcated Process for Consideration of Discretionary Denial Issues

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A new interim process for the 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 considerations and...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

PTAB Issues Guidance on Discretionary Denials

In a recent newsflash, we discussed the USPTO’s withdrawal of its 2022 memorandum that detailed how the PTAB would exercise its discretion to deny petitions for inter partes review and post-grant review. New guidance from the...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

USPTO Implements Interim Procedures Bifurcating Decisions to Institute AIA Trials

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On March 26, 2025, Acting Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Coke Morgan Stewart issued a memorandum (the Workload Memorandum) to all Administrative Patent Judges (APJs) of the Patent Trial and...more

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Will Fewer PTAB Judges Increase the Rate of Discretionary Denials of IPRs and PGRs?

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The Acting Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office just issued a memorandum setting out new procedures for discretionary denials of Inter Partes Reviews (IPRs) and Post-Grant Reviews (PGRs). The Acting...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Pivot At The PTAB: The Acting Director Bifurcates Review

With two memoranda this week, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) has made significant changes to trials at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”). Those trials—introduced in 2012 by the Leahy-Smith...more

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USPTO Rescinds Interim Guidance on Discretionary Denials

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On February 28, 2025, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) rescinded its June 21, 2022 Memorandum entitled “Interim Procedure for Discretionary Denials in AIA Post-Grant Proceedings with Parallel District Court...more

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