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Looking back over the final few weeks of 2023, patent filings were typical at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and slightly above average in district courts.
It was an overall below-average week for patent filings at both the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and district courts. The PTAB had only 15 new PTAB petitions—all inter partes reviews (IPRs), while the district court had only 24 new complaints filed.
Motions to stay are an important tool in patent litigation. Stays pause the litigation while an important issue is resolved in another forum.
On September 21, 2022, Director Vidal delivered a letter to Senators Hirono and Tillis, discussing sanctions that USPTO may impose on parties for misconduct or abuse of the IPR process.
On March 30, 2022, Judge Albright reconsidered Defendant Google LLC's ("Google") motion to sever and stay in Sonrai Memory Ltd. v. Google LLC.