MOIP Announces Core Achievements Marking the 1st Anniversary of the National Sovereignty Government

The standards and patents programme at the European Patent Office (EPO) is providing unique insights into how the high-stakes, global interplay between technology standards, digital connectivity and interoperability shapes market adoption of game-changing new technologies. The study will be presented today at a major Euractiv event on European competitiveness in emerging technologies, comprising one of several major programme milestones.

The Public Records Division (PRD) processes and fills orders for both certified and uncertified copies of United States Patent and Trademark Office documents, records assignments and other documents related to title. his is an update of actual processing times for orders filled during the month of May 2026.

To increase the certainty and predictability concerning patent rights and to encourage the timely filing of grantable petitions, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is revising its practice of requiring additional information for delays in taking certain actions in patent applications and patents from requiring additional information for delays exceeding two years to requiring additional information for delays exceeding one year. These petitions include petitions to revive applications, accept delayed maintenance fee payments, accept delayed priority or benefit claims, and excuse an applicant’s failure to act within prescribed time limits in connection with international design applications.

In this decision, the Director (1) waives the deadline for filing all requests for Director Review of decisions to 30 days; (2) finds that the filing deadline may be extended in exceptional circumstances and where the trial has not progressed meaningfully; and (3) applies Hulu, LLC v. Piranha Media Distribution, LLC, IPR2024-01252, Paper 27 (Director Apr. 17, 2025) (informative) to vacate institution and deny the petitions because the district court already had found the challenged claims invalid. The Director further explains exceptional circumstances warranting an additional extension may include: dismissal of all or substantially all claims in a co-pending litigation, findings of fact and conclusions of law that render all or substantially all challenged claims invalid, and a violation of a Sotera stipulation.