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Amendments to the Rules of Practice for Trials Before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board


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   Summary:

This final rule amends the existing consolidated set of rules relating to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (Office or USPTO) trial practice for inter partes review (‘‘IPR’’), post-grant review (‘‘PGR’’), the transitional program for covered business method patents (‘‘CBM’’), and derivation proceedings that implemented provisions of the Leahy Smith America Invents Act (‘‘AIA’’) providing for trials before the Office.


   Documents:

Amendments to the Rules of Practice for Trials Before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board

17 pgs - This PDF file is summarized here, but you can also read it, and review its contents. You will have access to this on test day.



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   Objectives
  • To help you understand what has changed in regards to the New Trial Proceedings.

 

 

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