( December 12, 2025, 9:49 AM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — One of the co-sponsors of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA), a former director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) and a former Federal Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals chief judge urge the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a technology company’s contention that the Federal Circuit expanded the scope of inter partes review (IPR) to include consideration of an “abandoned patent application” when affirming findings from the U.S. Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB)....