USPTO Director Squires’s 2025 policies encourage more use of evidence-based SMEDs to challenge patent rejections, especially for AI and advanced tech. This shift aims to make patenting easier and ...

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Under U.S. law, most patents are limited to a term of 20 years from the earliest nonprovisional filing date. However, Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) and Patent Term Extension (PTE) can be used in ...

Patent Bots proofread an entire year of issued patents to determine the top patent firms. Somerville, MA: Patent Bots, creator of AI-enabled software for patent attorneys, is pleased to announce its ...

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The US Patent and Trademark Office director John Squires formally announced the new chief judge of the agency’s appeals board ...

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A team of CWRU Law students recently took second place in the Southwest Regional National Patent Application Drafting Competition. Philip Kwon (2L), Amy Schnupp (2L) and Gregory Coffee (2L) found out ...