February 26, 2026
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has issued guidance on when real-parties-in-interest errors won't lead to denied petitions, and then instituted three inter partes reviews in his latest bare-bones mass decision.
January 13, 2026
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires has denied 47 requests for America Invents Act patent reviews and granted eight other petitions, continuing his practice of spurning most patent challenges that reach his desk since he took over the handling of institution decisions.
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.