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Question of the Week: Rumor has it that Director Squires will no longer be making IPR institution decisions. Will that affect institution rates?

Question of the Week: Why should a patent owner lose the right to claim damages for an infringer’s past infringement because a previous infringer would not agree to mark their products?

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Question of the Week: In view of Director Squires' recent institution of eight IPRs, six concerning the same parties, has the PTO changed course on discretionary denials?

Question of the Week: Do patent owners have the right to exclude others from using their inventions after eBay?

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Question of the Week: Do you think AI is improving patent quality?

AI Won’t Replace Patent Lawyers—But it is Coming for Commodity Patent Work | IPWatchdog Unleashed Moving from patent count to patent value—and using IP strategy to preserve business options. That leads to a discussion about the role of IP counsel.

Question of the Week: Shouldn’t it be sufficient that a provisional application describe the subject matter being relied upon as prior art to get the benefit of the provisional filing date as the date of the prior art?

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Question of the Week: Should obvious-type double patenting rejections be based on anti-harassment alone when no term-extension concern is apparent?

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Question of the Week: How is the departure of Coke Morgan Stewart going to affect the PTAB’s analysis of “settled expectations” in IPR institution decisions?

Question of the Week: The Patent Office will be requiring ex parte reexamination filers to identify all real parties in interest. But, since it will allow those RPIs to remain confidential, how will a patentee know whether an estoppel applies?

Requirement To Identify All Real Parties in Interest to a Third Party Request for an Ex Parte Reexamination The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO or Office) is proposing to amend the rules of practice to require a third party request for ex parte reexamination to include a statement by the third party requester identifying all real parties in interest to the ex parte reexamination...

Question of the Week: The full Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing concerning PERA last week. Given that the Supreme Court has refused to take up patent eligibility since Alice, do you think Congress will finally fix this problem?

From Genes to Machines: the Patent Eligibility Debate | United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary Full Committee Hearing on July 14, 2026 at 6:15 AM