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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
The statistics below reveal the current trends for proceeding breakdowns, institution rates, and outcomes of design patent PTO litigation proceedings. Three petitions were filed in January 2019, but none have been filed...more
The PTAB has posted the AIA Trial Statistics through the end of calendar year 2017. The statistics are available for download at the PTO website....more
The statistics below reveal the current trends on proceeding breakdowns, institution rates, and outcomes of design patent PTO litigation. Since February 2017, with 13 additional design patent institution decisions the...more
Although post-grant challenges of design patents have consistently made up a small percentage of the total number of patent challenges, these numbers have steadily increased to their highest level in 2017. The statistics...more
The USPTO’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) has released its March 2017 statistics. The end of March marking the halfway point in the USPTO's fiscal year, the overall totals for fiscal year 2017 (FY 2017) are coming...more