Office Patent Trial Practice Guide (US Patent and Trademark Office Regulation) (PTO) (2018 Edition‪)‬

The Law Library presents the complete text of the Office Patent Trial Practice Guide (US Patent and Trademark Office Regulation) (PTO) (2018 Edition).
Updated as of May 29, 2018

The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) establishes several new trial proceedings to be conducted by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (Board) including inter partes review, post-grant review, the transitional program for covered business method patents, and derivation proceedings. In separate rulemakings, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (Office or USPTO) is revising the rules of practice to implement these provisions of the AIA that provide for the trial proceedings before the Board. The Office publishes in this notice a practice guide for the trial final rules to advise the public on the general framework of the regulations, including the structure and times for taking action in each of the new proceedings.

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- The complete text of the Office Patent Trial Practice Guide (US Patent and Trademark Office Regulation) (PTO) (2018 Edition)
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- A table of contents in introduction presenting a general overview of the structure