January 12, 2026
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires on Monday declared one new patent review decision, which deals with multiple petitions on the same patent claims, to be precedential, and labeled another decision, which addresses design patents, as informative.
July 25, 2025
Acting U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Coke Morgan Stewart issued just eight discretionary denial decisions over the last week, including one that addressed arguments tying in the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act for the first time.