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Patent owners, innovators lobby White House against USPTO’s proposed IPR rule

By Nick Robertson ( February 12, 2026, 19:25 GMT | Insight) -- Trade groups representing patent owners and innovators, predominantly in the tech and manufacturing fields, urged the Trump administration in a letter Tuesday against backing the US Patent and Trademark Office’s proposed rule overhauling inter partes review at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, arguing it would hamper US innovation.The US Patent and Trademark Office’s proposed rulemaking to overhaul the inter partes review, or IPR, process at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board would make US industry more vulnerable to “patent trolls” and would undermine innovation in emerging fields such as artificial intelligence and quantum computing, a group of trade organizations told the White House in a letter Tuesday....

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