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Patents Post-Grant Review Final Rules

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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

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Director Review Under the USPTO's Final Rule – Patents: Post-Grant Podcast

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Please join our Intellectual Property and Health Sciences practice groups for our podcast series focused on strategies, trends, and other happenings in post-grant proceedings. In this episode, Troutman Pepper attorneys Andy...more

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Recapping a Busy Summer for Director Review

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United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director Kathi Vidal had a busy end to her summer, issuing six decisions as part of the Director Review process between July 10 and August 22. In the six decisions, the...more

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PTAB/USPTO Update - April 2023

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On March 6, the USPTO announced a new Green Energy Category of its Patents for Humanity Program. Patents for Humanity is an awards competition that recognizes innovators who use technology to meet global humanitarian...more

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USPTO Announces Across-the-Board Patent Fee Increases

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The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published a Final Rule today in the Federal Register, viewable at 85 Fed. Reg. 46932 (August 3, 2020), announcing fee adjustments affecting all aspects of patent practice...more

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USPTO Harmonizes New Claim Construction Standard in PTAB Proceedings

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The PTAB will apply the same Phillips standard applied by district courts and the ITC. Key Points: ..The change is not retroactive, and will apply only to IPR, PGR, and CBM petitions filed on or after November 13, 2018....more

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PTAB Adopts Phillips Claim Construction Standard for AIA Challenges

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Last week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (“Patent Office”) published its Final Rule Package modifying the claim construction standard used in challenges before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”), including...more

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PTO Replaces Broadest Reasonable Interpretation Claim Construction Standard in IPR, PGR, CBM Proceedings

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Today, the PTO announced that it has published a final rule changing the claim construction standard applied during IPR, PGR, and CBM proceedings before the PTAB. The final rule replaces the “broadest reasonable...more

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New Final Rules for Post-Grant Proceedings Published by USPTO on April Fools Day

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The USPTO has gone ahead and finalized new rules for post-grant proceedings under the America Invents Act (AIA) – despite heavy criticism that the rules do little to alter the lopsided nature of these proceedings. The new...more

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The USPTO Amends AIA Trial Rules: 4 Changes That You Need To Know

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On April 1, 2016, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued amended final rules that govern trials under the America Invents Act (AIA), including inter partes review, post-grant review, covered business method...more

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