The USPTO has launched a sweeping recalibration of its post-grant proceedings at the PTAB, signaling a decisive pivot back toward discretionary denials of patent challenges. With the rescission of ...

The aim of the process is to improve PTAB efficiency and balance resources between post-grant proceedings and ex parte appeals, while promoting "consistent application of discretionary ...

The cleanest and most common way to win an ex parte appeal at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) is to have convincing technical reasoning that the prior art does not teach what the examiner ...