PTAB Invalidates Heavily Asserted Jabaa Patent Challenged by Askeladden
PTAB Invalidates U.S. Patent Nos. 7,837,100 and 8,905,301 based on Askeladden’s Request
Askeladden Stresses Importance of Notice-and-Comment Rulemaking to the Federal Circuit in Apple v. Vidal
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PTAB Judges Alarmed By Squires Moves To Limit Their Role
October 27, 2025
With U.S. Patent and Trademark Office leadership limiting the Patent Trial and Appeal Board's oversight of patent validity disputes, current judges for the tribunal say they are distressed by the recent moves to curb their authority and are looking for work elsewhere amid the instability.
PTAB Discretionary Denials, Reexam Bids Way Up: Report
October 14, 2025
The number of Patent Trial and Appeal Board petitions that were denied for discretionary reasons reached a record level in the third quarter of 2025 — more than 200% higher than in all of last year — and patent reexamination requests also spiked, according to a new report from Unified Patents.
Adapting to USPTOs Tighter Inter Partes Review Rules
August 21, 2025
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a memorandum Petitioners will no longer be able to rely on Federal Circuit law and will have to identify where every challenged claim limitation is found in patents or printed publications and may no longer rely on general knowledge or AAPA to fill in gaps.
What Patent Claim Invalidity Means in Different Forums
August 18, 2025
In patent litigation, "invalidity" is a term of art, but not all findings of invalidity are created equal. Depending on the forum and procedural posture, a claim that has been invalidated may still be asserted elsewhere, and it may or may not cast a shadow over similar claims from the same patent. This article breaks down the three key venues where patent claims are commonly invalidated and explains what each type of invalidity actually means.
PTAB Petitions To Get More Scrutiny Under New Policy
August 14, 2025
USPTO Acting Director Coke Morgan Steward announced in a late July memo that the office will begin enforcing a rule — which had often been waived over the past five years — that inter partes review petitioners must specify where each element of a patent being challenged is found in earlier patents or printed publications.
USPTOs AI Tool Redefines Design Patent Landscape
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has introduced DesignVision, a new artificial intelligence-powered image search tool now available to design patent examiners.