Frederic M. Meeker will moderate a PTAB Bar Association Program Committee webinar on the evolving PTAB institution landscape under U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires on Tuesday, January 13 at noon eastern.
Fred and panelists will explore key developments as a result of Director Squires’s recent institution decisions, including strategic considerations for practitioners navigating these decisions, and what early data from Squires’s instituted reviews may suggest about future trends. Topics will include the role of settled expectations, parallel proceedings, the use (or absence) of written explanations in Squires’s decisions, and early indicators of how discretionary factors are being weighed in practice.
