Last Friday, recently confirmed U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires issued a memorandum to all administrative patent judges (APJs) at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) informing the Board that Director Squires will personally decide whether to institute inter partes review (IPR) or post-grant review (PGR) validity trials. According to an open letter accompanying the memorandum, Director Squires aims to address perceptions that the PTAB is incentivized to institute America Invents Act (AIA) trials, the latest signal that the Trump Administration is reining in PTAB validity trials compared to previous regimes.
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