{"id":194,"date":"2025-10-17T12:29:41","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T19:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comteams.com\/?p=194"},"modified":"2025-10-17T12:30:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T19:30:20","slug":"com-teams-memo-uspto-strengthens-inventor-protections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comteams.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/17\/com-teams-memo-uspto-strengthens-inventor-protections\/","title":{"rendered":"Com Teams\u00ae Memo \u2014 USPTO Strengthens Inventor Protections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Date: October 17, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has announced an important reform restoring the authority to institute post-grant reviews (Inter Partes Review and Post-Grant Review) to the USPTO Director.  (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uspto.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/documents\/open-letter-and-memo_20251017.pdf?utm_campaign=subscriptioncenter&amp;utm_content=&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_name=&amp;utm_source=govdelivery&amp;utm_term=\">see letter<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This change increases transparency and accountability in the patent challenge process and strengthens protections for independent inventors and small entities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By ensuring that only the Director\u2014not the Patent Trial and Appeal Board\u2014may decide whether a patent challenge proceeds, the USPTO is reinforcing its statutory framework and public trust in the patent system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For inventors and early-stage companies, including those developing the Com Teams\u00ae family of governance technologies, this reform provides greater stability for newly issued patents, reducing exposure to post-grant attack and improving the long-term security and value of protected intellectual property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This update reflects a broader national commitment to innovation fairness and supports our ongoing mission to advance governed collaboration between humans and AI within a transparent, ethical framework.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: October 17, 2025 The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has announced an important reform restoring the authority to institute post-grant reviews (Inter Partes Review and Post-Grant Review) to the USPTO Director. (see letter) This change increases transparency and accountability in the patent challenge process and strengthens protections for independent inventors and small [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":195,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-governance_ethics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comteams.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comteams.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comteams.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comteams.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comteams.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comteams.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":196,"href":"https:\/\/comteams.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/196"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comteams.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comteams.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comteams.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comteams.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}