Mealey's (October 3, 2022, 12:36 PM EDT) -- NEW ORLEANS — A group of individual patent holders and an organization representing the interests of patent holders lack standing to maintain a lawsuit that would force the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) to issue standards for discretionary denials of inter partes reviews (IPRs) and post-grant reviews (PGRs), the Fifth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled Sept. 30....