SCOTUS Declines Case on Right of Patent Owners to Identify RPIs

Supreme Court denied certiorari in Dolby Laboratories v. Unified Patents LLC, declining to review whether patent owners can compel PTAB petitioners to identify all real parties in interest in IPR proceedings. The case stemmed from Federal Circuit's dismissal of Dolby's appeal for lack of Article III standing after Dolby won the underlying IPR challenging video decoding patent claims. USPTO has since restored stricter RPI identification requirements following Director Squires' October 2025 memo addressing foreign state-backed exploitation concerns.