USPTO Director Squires’s 2025 policies encourage more use of evidence-based SMEDs to challenge patent rejections, especially ...

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Note: The U.S. Supreme Court has made a practice lately of slapping down the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the court Congress has designated for hearing appeals of patent cases. In ...