{"id":8505,"date":"2025-11-11T21:24:31","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T21:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/trends-in-patent-policy-and-enforcement\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T21:24:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T21:24:31","slug":"trends-in-patent-policy-and-enforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/trends-in-patent-policy-and-enforcement\/","title":{"rendered":"Trends In Patent Policy and Enforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div>\n<p>On Oct. 9, 2025, the newly appointed director of the Patent Office made a remarkable statement to the United States Senate. Director John Squires stated that patents are far more than economic instruments or property rights. Rather, he proclaimed, patents \u201care instruments of national defense.\u201d <i>See<\/i>, Squires, J., \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uspto.gov\/about-us\/news-updates\/statement-director-squires-united-states-senate-subcommittee-intellectual\" target=\"_blank\" link-data=\"{\" cms.site.owner=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Patent Eligibility Restoration Act \u2013 Restoring Clarify, Certainty, and Predictability to the U.S. Patent System<\/a>\u201d (Oct. 9, 2025). Director Squires proceeded to present an argument, steeped in references to the 9\/11 attacks, that the government\u2019s prior efforts to limit patent enforcement were contrary to the nation\u2019s interest and jeopardized national security. <i>Id.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Oct. 9, 2025, the newly appointed director of the Patent Office made a remarkable statement to the United States Senate. Director John Squires stated that patents are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8506,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1385,891,1775,3587],"class_list":["post-8505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lawyers","tag-enforcement","tag-patent","tag-policy","tag-trends"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usatrustedlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}