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A Year of Change, Transition, and “Recalibration”: What Mattered in 2025 for IP Practice, IPWatchdog
December 28, 2025Partner Dion Bregman was quoted by IPWatchdog in a year-end roundup article looking at the biggest developments of 2025 in the intellectual property (IP) space.
“One of the most consequential IP developments of 2025 has been Director Squires reclaiming PTAB institution authority, meaning he now personally decides whether the PTAB will institute AIA trials,” Dion said. “For years, that power rested with PTAB panels of administrative patent judges. By pulling it back into the Director’s office, he shifted the balance of power in post-grant practice and transformed institution from an adjudicatory determination into an explicit policy choice.”