In total, the PTAB is likely to have issued three times as many procedural denials in 2020 as it did in 2016 (up from 5% of all institution decisions in 2016, to approximately 17% of all institution ...
Since Acting USPTO Director Coke Morgan Stewart took office in 2025, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) has overhauled its discretionary denial procedures for inter partes reviews (IPRs) and ...