Law360: Rising PTAB Filings Follow Surge In Patent Cases
June 12, 2025
The number of petitions filed with the Patent Trial and Appeal Board increased in 2024, along with a hike in federal court litigation. “This makes sense because about 80% of petitions are driven by patents asserted in litigation, so with one petition per asserted patent, you would expect to see PTAB filings follow the litigation trend more closely,” O’Melveny & Myers LLP partner Tim Fink said. “It took a couple years for the bar to adapt to this one-petition-per-patent limitation, but you can see that starting at about 2020, the number of petitions leveled off, and now it tracks pretty closely with the district court trend.”
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