USPTO Begins Effort to Abandon Broadest Reasonable Construction Standard in Contested PTO Proceedings
Less than two months after Andrei Iancu was confirmed as the new Director of the USPTO, the Office issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking concerning the claim construction standards employed in contested USPTO proceedings, including IRPs, PGRs, and CBMs. The proposed change would abandon the broadest reasonable construction standard currently used for unexpired patents in…