Mealey's (July 15, 2022, 9:51 AM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A company’s petition for certiorari over the proper delegation of duties related to inter partes review (IPR) within the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) will go unanswered with a June 24 filing in the U.S. Supreme Court in which the agency waived its right to oppose the petition’s questions about which PTO personnel are permitted to make decisions on whether to institute IPR....