Resources
Links
Below are links that are important for the PTAB Bar community:Official Site for the PTAB
Patent Trial and Appeal Case Tracking System (P-TACTS)
Precedential Opinion Panel (POP) Decisions and other PTAB Precedential and Informative Decisions
PTAB Documents
The following documents contain important information for the PTAB Bar community. They define how the PTAB conducts post-grant review trials:- A consolidated version of the Trial Practice Guide is available. Members can access the document by logging in to their account here
- July 2019 PTAB Trial Practice Guide Update
- PTO Revised Guidelines Sec. 101 (Jan. 2019)
- PTO Revised Guidelines Sec. 112 (Jan. 2019)
- Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (Jan. 2018)
- Electronic Code of Federal Regulations (August 1, 2018)
- Public, final decisions of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, including decisions designated as precedential or informative.
- Aug. 2018 PTAB Trial Practice Guide Update
- PTAB Standard Operating Procedures
- Leahy-Smith America Invents Act, Pub. L. 112–29 (Sept. 16, 2011)
- Leahy-Smith America Invents Technical Corrections, Pub. L. 112–274 (Jan. 14, 2013)
- Consolidated Laws (April 2013)
- Consolidated Rules (May 2016)
- Office Patent Trial Practice Guide, Final Rule, 77 Fed. Reg. 48756 (Aug. 14, 2012)
- Rules of Practice for Trials Before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board and Judicial Review of Patent Trial and Appeal Board Decisions, Final Rule, 77 Fed. Reg. 48612 (Aug. 14, 2012)
- Changes to Implement Inter Partes Review Proceedings, Post-Grant Review Proceedings, and Transitional Program for Covered Business Method Patents, Final Rule, 77 Fed. Reg. 48680 (Aug. 14, 2012)
- Transitional Program for Covered Business Method Patents—Definitions of Covered Business Method Patent and Technological Invention, Final Rule, 77 Fed. Reg. 48734 (Aug. 14, 2012)
- Amendments to the Rules of Practice for Trials Before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, Final Rule, 80 Fed. Reg. 28561 (May 19, 2015)
- Amendments to the Rules of Practice for Trials Before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, Final Rule, 81 Fed. Reg. 18750 (Apr. 1, 2016)
