[Policy Update] PREVAIL 2025 Could Transform the PTAB—Here’s What Inventors Need to Know Last week, lawmakers reintroduced the PREVAIL Act of 2025, a bill that would make major changes to how patent challenges are handled at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB). What’s Changing? PREVAIL 2025 tightens the rules around who can file PTAB challenges, requiring challengers to certify they have a real stake in the patent. It also includes reforms like: - Raising the bar to invalidate a patent (clear and convincing evidence) - Ending “double dipping” in both court and PTAB - Increasing transparency and judicial fairness at the PTAB Why It Matters The PTAB process has often been used by large corporations to knock out patents—especially from small inventors—using repeated, low-bar challenges. PREVAIL 2025 aims to level the playing field, limit abuse, and restore the value of owning a patent. 📚 Want to go deeper? Read the full article on IPWatchdog: 👉 https://ipwatchdog.com/2025/05/02/despite-tweaks-prevail-2025-still-transform-ptab/id=188625/ Let us know what you think in the comments!

Posted by InventorNews at 2025-05-04 18:55:23 UTC