The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), led by Director John A. Squires, has issued a notice of proposed rulemaking to revise the rules governing inter partes review (IPR) before the ...

Under President Trump, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has sought to encourage the issuance of more patents and limit the ability to challenge them in post-grant proceedings; since John Squires ...

Since their creation in 2011 by the America Invents Act (AIA), inter partes reviews (IPRs) have become a prominent feature in patent litigants' strategic playbooks. Accused infringers often prefer to ...

When someone creates a US patent, they go through a review process to stop the most blatant copies from previous patents or pre-existing work. After this, you may still have bad patents get through, ...