US Inventor v. USPTO (Fed. Cir., October 3, 2025) 2024-1396
This episode is about a United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit opinion, decided on October 3, 2025, concerning the case of US Inventor, Inc. v. United States Patent and Trademark Office (PTO). The core issue of the appeal was whether the plaintiffs-appellants, US Inventor, Inc. and National Small Business United, had standing to sue the PTO for denying their petition for rulemaking. This petition sought to limit the PTO’s discretionary authority to institute inter partes review (IPR) and post-grant review (PGR) proceedings under the America Invents Act (AIA). The Federal…
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