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Citing national security concerns, USPTO will require heightened disclosure

By Melissa Ritti ( October 29, 2025, 16:14 GMT | Comment) -- When the chief judge of one of the busiest venues for US patent litigation in 2022 ordered plaintiffs to disclose “every individual and corporation with a direct or indirect interest” in the technology at stake, he slashed his patent caseload in half. The US Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday borrowed a page from that transparency playbook, in what appears to be the latest hurdle for patent challengers under the America Invents Act.The inter partes review (IPR) procedure is being abused by foreign state actors in a concerted effort to chip away at US dominance in emergent technologies like artificial intelligence and quantum computing....

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