In June 2025 SAP and Motorola each filed petitions for writs of mandamus asking the Federal Circuit to order the USPTO to reinstate the Vidal Memo safe‑harbors and to overturn Acting Director Coke Stewart’s decisions to vacate institutions of their inter partes review (IPR) petitions. I have been covering the cases on Patently-O:
- Dennis Crouch, In re SAP America: Sharpening the Dispute over PTAB Discretionary Denials, Patently-O (July 16, 2025);
- Dennis Crouch, SAP’s Mandamus Petition Challenging Trump Admin’s Discretionary Denial Policy Shift, Patently‑O (July 2, 2025);
- Dennis Crouch, Motorola Follows SAP with Mandamus Challenge to Acting Director Stewart’s IPR Policy Reversal, Patently‑O (July 10, 2025);
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Dennis Crouch, The Power of Unreviewability, Patently-O (July 22, 2025).
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