October 02, 2025
Patent owners have a new way to seek the denial of petitions challenging patents, now that a decision that limited when the Patent Trial and Appeal Board must consider whether a patent challenger named all the interested parties is no longer precedential, attorneys say.
September 26, 2025
In John Squires' first week as U.S. Patent and Trademark Office director, he walked back precedent from the first Trump administration, claimed machine learning should be patent-eligible, and designated Deputy Director Coke Morgan Stewart to continue handling discretionary denial reviews.
October 05, 2021
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board has struck down two iRobot Corp. patents covering its Roomba line of products, handing victories to rival SharkNinja in the companies' dispute over robot vacuum technology.
July 08, 2021
Attorneys who are vaccinated will be allowed to go maskless before a jury on Monday in a Daiichi Sankyo unit's patent suit in California federal court alleging Novartis is infringing its billion-dollar skin cancer treatment. Here's a look at that case — plus all the other major intellectual property matters on deck in the coming week.
December 04, 2020
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board on Friday made precedential three decisions dealing with when companies challenging patents must name all of the interested parties in a petition and when multiple petitions challenging the same patent are not allowed.