The Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s September 10, 2026 order in IPR2025-01593 is not a merits ruling, but it is still worth practitioners’ attention. The Board entered a modified scheduling order, adjusting the case calendar that will govern the parties’ deadlines through the remainder of the inter partes review. While these orders can look routine, they often reveal how the PTAB is balancing efficiency, fairness, and the practical demands of contested patent proceedings.

At bottom, the Board decided that the existing schedule should be changed.

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s latest entry in IPR2026-00273 is a scheduling order, not a merits decision—but practitioners should not dismiss it as routine. In PTAB practice, the scheduling order is often the document that quietly defines the real shape of the case: deadlines, sequencing, and the procedural framework that will govern how the parties present their evidence and arguments.

Here, the Board issued an order setting the schedule for the proceeding.

The latest entry in D.C. Circuit appeal No. 25-7156 is procedural rather than merits-based, but it is still worth watching. On August 18, 2026, the clerk’s office entered an order scheduling oral argument for Tuesday, October 13, 2026. View full case on Docket Alarm.

Because this is a scheduling order, the court did not decide any substantive legal issue, announce a new rule, or alter existing precedent.