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Tesla joins list of U.S. Supreme Court petitioners questioning scope of judicial review amid USPTO’s curtailment of IPRs

Jack Ellis

Context: In late 2025, Coke Morgan Stewart, Deputy Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USTPO), discretionarily denied Tesla’s four petitions for inter partes review (IPR) of patents owned by Granite Vehicle Ventures LLC. Tesla petitioned the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit for a writ of mandamus to get the IPR denials vacated; the Federal Circuit denied Tesla’s petition.

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Counsel

Tesla is represented by Haynes and Boone’s Angela M. Oliver, Debra J. McComas, and Michael F. Qian.

  1. 35 U.S.C. § 314(d) bars judicial review of “[the USPTO’s] determination… whether to institute an inter partes review”. ↩︎
  2. The case was transferred to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California in February 2026. ↩︎