Paragon 28, Inc. v. TREACE MEDICAL CONCEPTS, INC.

Standard

2026-00194 · US12102368

In plain English: The Patent Office agreed to review the challenged claims. The trial is still under way and no final decision has issued.

How to read this page: start with the Case brief above, use (the small numbered links) to open the exact source page they cite, then use Reference material further down for claim-by-claim and ground-by-ground detail.

Case brief

Instituted; trial pending

Outcome record: InstitutedReviewed against the official PDF

The Director instituted inter partes review in this proceeding by a notice dated June 23, 2026, after review of the merits.[1][4][7]

Director's Notice of Decisions on Institution: institution granted June 23, 2026

  • The notice does not identify the challenged patent, the challenged claims, or the parties; those docket facts appear in the matter heading from the Office's docket record.
  • The notice records that institution was granted on the merits but does not list the petition's grounds or say which of them were instituted.[4][7]
  • There is no Board decision yet: institution came by Director notice, and no final written decision is of record.
  • The trial is pending; the record supplied for this brief ends with the institution notice.

A notice that lists several matters supports only the dispositions it states; it supplies no panel analysis from which to draw broader lessons.

Reference material

Claim-by-claim and ground-by-ground records underlying the brief above.

Claims × grounds ()

No FWD-stage ground outcomes recorded yet.

Denied grounds ()

No institution-stage grounds recorded yet.