Issuance of the revised interim DR process comes on the heels of a Request for Comments issued by the USPTO on July 20, 2022 seeking stakeholders’ feedback on the current interim DR process, including ...

Joel Brandes poses for a photograph at the New York State Court of Appeals on Thursday, Sept. 8, 2016, in Albany, N.Y. (Photo/Hans Pennink) Every lawyer who ever litigated a case knows that a motion ...

Ex parte reexamination may be requested by either a patent owner or a third party in order to challenge the novelty or nonobviousness of one or more claims in a patent. The scope of prior art ...

The National Judicial Council (NJC) has had cause to sanction judges who did not exercise proper discretion in granting ex-parte orders, which are made without waiting for a response from the other ...