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PTAB leaders shine light on Squires 'summary notice' decisions

By Nick Robertson ( October 29, 2025, 19:45 GMT | Insight) -- Leaders of the US Patent and Trademark Office’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board gave some insight into what Director John Squires’ “summary notice” process will look like in practice, after the change was announced earlier this month. Expect “thumbs up or thumbs down” decisions, they said at a webinar Wednesday. Such decisions will be in sharp contrast to the detailed decisions that have helped inform PTAB practitioners of best practices before the board.As predicted following US Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires’ announcement earlier this month that he would handle inter partes review (IPR) and post-grant review (PGR) petition institution decisions before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, practitioners will no longer receive the detailed reasoning they have come to expect from PTAB judges....

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