Earlier today, Acting U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director Coke Morgan Stewart addressed the Intellectual Property Business Congress (IPBC) Global 2025, telling those in attendance that the Office is already making headway by chipping away at the record backlog inherited from the Biden Administration. Not surprisingly, however, much of Stewart’s remarks focused on new Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) initiatives and a desire on the part of the Office to see patent challengers migrate away from filing inter partes review (IPR) challenges and toward filing third-party submissions of prior art during examination so examiners can be presented with the best prior art, which will lead to better examination and fewer mistakes.

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