By Dani Kass ( April 3, 2026, 11:22 PM EDT) — U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director John Squires may look like he’s running the agency quite differently from predecessor Kathi Vidal, with near opposite policies on patent reviews, but a bipartisan group of lawmakers last month gave Squires the same chastising about exceeding the director’s authority that it had given Vidal years before….
