On July 18, 2025, Scott R. Boalick, Chief Administrative Patent Judge for the Patent Trials and Appeals Board (“PTAB”), announced that, absent good cause, the PTAB will issue a Notice of Filing Date ...

In Multi-Color Corp. v. Brook & Whittle Ltd., PGR2025-00025, the PTAB declined to discretionarily deny institution of Multi-Color’s post-grant ...

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April 4, 2024 - Congress formed the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) within the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in 2012. A patent challenger can file a petition asking the PTAB ...

Managing IP crunches the data to reveal the busiest petitioners, patent owners, law firms, and attorneys at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board in the first three months of 2016. The quarter included ...

Patent Trial and Appeal Board filing so far this year is down on 2015. Michael Loney speaks to PTAB practitioners to ask what is driving this and whether the downward trend will continue Ahead of the ...

September 28, 2023 - The post-America Invents Act (AIA) landscape has fundamentally changed how inventors with patents can challenge later-filed patents with overlapping or similar claims as their own ...

As an alternative to litigating in federal court, the America Invents Act vests the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board with power to conduct post-grant proceedings in which accused infringers can ...

A decade of abuse of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board as a tool of predatory infringement tactics has already damaged the U.S. innovation economy and undermined the ability of the U.S. to address ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. Over the past decade, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) has emerged as a critical and much-relied-upon tool ...

“[The OpenSky case] suggests that the PTAB is willing to address misconduct…[b]ut the lack of decisive and swift monetary sanctions in the first place leaves many wondering where the line is that must ...