Intellectual Property
Feb. 1, 2021
End of the Iancu era: Is the PTAB pendulum poised to swing again?
On Jan. 19, the 58th director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Andrei Iancu, stepped down from his post, the day before the transition of the next presidential administration.
Brenton R. Babcock
Partner
Loeb & Loeb LLP
Phone: (949) 760-0404
Email: bbabcock@loeb.com
Brent represents high-technology clients in every aspect of intellectual property disputes, focusing on federal district court litigation throughout the country, trials and post-grant patent proceedings before the USPTO's Patent Trial and Appeal Board, ex parte appeals before the PTAB, and alternative dispute resolution proceedings, including domestic and international arbitrations.
Tyler R. Train
Associate
Womble Bond Dickinson
On Jan. 19, the 58th director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Andrei Iancu, stepped down from his post, the day before the transition of the next presidential administration. The USPTO’s commissioner of patents, Drew Hirshfeld, has since taken over the function and duties of the director as the country awaits the new administration’s appointment of the USPTO’s next permanent director. With this changing of the guard, patent owners, big tech, pharma, patent pr...
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