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PTAB Trial Recalibration: The New Procedures, Best Practices and Proposals You Need to Know Now

About the Course

Introduction

This CLE webinar will guide patent counsel on the practice changes at the Patent Trial & Appeal Board (PTAB). The panel will provide a detail overview of the many recalibrated requirements, and will offer guidance on how to best leverage these developments. The panel will also provide an overview of pending rule proposals and expected outcomes/impacts.

Description

Practice before the USPTO PTAB is constantly evolving under the new Director. Over the past few months, previously established PTAB trial practices and procedures have been significantly revised or replaced. And additional policies that were newly developed under the previous Director have been rescinded or significantly curtailed. As we move into the fall season, a pending notice-and-comment rule package will introduce further proposals to recalibrate existing practices all the while Congress proposes even further changes in draft legislative proposals.

Listen as our authoritative panel of PTAB litigators assess the growing slate of practice changes, provide a detail overview of the many recalibrated requirements, and how to best leverage these developments. Looking forward, the panel will also provide an overview of pending rule proposals and expected outcomes/impacts.

Credit Information
  • This 90-minute webinar is eligible in most states for 1.5 CLE credits.


  • Live Online


    On Demand

Date + Time

  • event

    Tuesday, September 19, 2023

  • schedule

    1:00 p.m. ET./10:00 a.m. PT

  1. Changes to Discretionary Denial Practices
    1. Compelling merits?
  2. Prior Art & Admissions
  3. New Director Review Options & Best Practices
    1. Sanctions
  4. Notice-and-Comment Rule Proposals & Predictions
  5. Legislative Ideas

The panel will review these and other key issues:

  • How do the new procedures and the end of the Precedential Opinion Panel change the process for review?
  • What does the new Guidance on ex parte appeals mean for parties to the appeals?
  • What lessons can be learned from recent Director decisions on review?