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2024 Post-Grant Annual Report

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Fish & Richardson’s 2024 Post-Grant Report takes a deep dive into the cases, trends, and statistics that shaped Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) practice throughout the year and how they might affect practitioners going...more

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

PTAB Year in Review – USPTO Rulemaking in 2024 Related to PTAB Practice and Procedures

The final year of Director Vidal’s tenure as the Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office was a busy year for rulemaking at the Office. Since late 2023, five Notices of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRMs) directly related to...more

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

2024 PTAB Year in Review: Analysis & Trends – 2024 PTAB Case Highlights

Abuse of Process and/or Sanctions – 37 C.F.R. § 42.12 - Spectrum Solutions LLC v. Longhorn Vaccines & Diagnostics, LLC, IPR2021-00847, IPR2021-00850, IPR2021-00854, IPR2021-00857 & IPR2021-00860 - Decision...more

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

2024 PTAB Year in Review: Analysis & Trends

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) continues to play a pivotal role in shaping the intellectual property landscape. In 2024, several developments affecting PTAB practice emerged, from new rulemaking at the USPTO to key...more

Rothwell, Figg, Ernst & Manbeck, P.C.

Director Review Codified as Director Vidal Steps Down—What is this Power and How Did Vidal Wield It?

With U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director Kathi Vidal’s return to private practice in December 2024 and the future permanent Director yet to be tapped for nomination, it is a good time to reflect on one of the...more

Erise IP

Eye on IPRs: January 2025: USPTO Fee Increases; Patent Challengers Can't Dismiss Fed. Cir. Appeal After Decision

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Effective January 19, 2025, the USPTO is increasing various patent filing fees, including an across-the-board fee increase as well as specific increases for America Invents Act trials, Director Review, and other procedures....more

Jones Day

PTAB Fee Increases in 2025

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Petitioners may soon need to check their account balances, as the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) is raising patent fees across the board, effective January 19, 2025. 89 Fed. Reg. 91898....more

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PTAB/USPTO Update - August 2023

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USPTO News - On July 11, the USPTO Office of the Chief Economist released the 2022 updates to its Trademark Case Files Dataset and Trademark Assignment Dataset....more

McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP

USPTO Issues Final Rule to Revise PTA Rules in View of Supernus v. Iancu

Last month, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published a final rule in the Federal Register (85 Fed. Reg. 36335), in which the Office set forth revisions to the rules of practice concerning Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) in...more

Knobbe Martens

Courts Have No Jurisdiction Over Challenge to PTO Action Before Final Agency Decision

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ODYSSEY LOGISTICS AND TECH. v. IANCU - Before Lourie, Reyna and Hughes. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia. Summary: PTO procedural actions are not appealable before the...more

Smart & Biggar

Rx IP Update - March 2019

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Federal Court finds invalidity allegations relating to patent for metformin formulations not justified - On March 8, 2019, Justice Fothergill granted Valeant Canada’s application for an order prohibiting the Minister of...more

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