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Patent Owners Prevail: USPTO’s Stewart Backs IP Holders in Wave of Discretionary Denial Orders At the core of this policy transformation lies a newly adopted two-step discretionary denial framework, allowing the USPTO Director to screen IPR petitions before sending them to a PTAB panel. This includes an assessm... Read the full IIPLA article: https://iipla.org/news/uspto-backs-patent-owners-ipr-denials