Kenneth Weatherwax of Lowenstein & Weatherwax LLP was quoted in Law360’s November 3, 2025 article by Dani Kass regarding the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s issuance, under a policy announced by its new Director, of its first summary decisions denying institution of trial for discretionary reasons in inter partes review proceedings.  Mr. Weatherwax is quoted as observing that unreasoned orders are commonplace in non-patent administrative contexts and that, even when the coherence of such decisionmaking is not readily apparent, courts have “a tendency to give agencies a wide berth” in employing them.  He noted the recent abrogation of the Chevron rule that accorded deference to agencies’ interpretation of statutes, but questioned whether it would change this tendency, “especially when the decision is supposed to be usually unreviewable by courts” as is true for these IPR orders.  The article is available to Law360 subscribers at this link.