USPTO Extends Deadline for Comments to Help Improve PTAB Proceedings

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USPTO SealIf you were planning on letting the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office know how you feel about the use of the "Broadest Reasonable Interpretation" standard for claim construction during PTAB trials or the near impossibility of amending claims in IPRs, you have an additional month.  As we have previously reported, the USPTO is seeking feedback on the PTAB trial proceedings established by the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act.  This request can be found in a Federal Register Notice from June 27, 2014, entitled "Request for Comments on Trial Proceedings Under the America Invents Act Before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board."  Specifically, the USPTO outlined 17 issues, or questions, for which the Office is most interested in receiving public comments.  The original deadline for submission was tomorrow, September 16, 2014, the two-year anniversary of the PTAB.  However, the period for public comment was extended until October 16, 2014 according to a document found on the Patent Office website entitled "USPTO Extending Comment Period on Trial Proceedings Under the America Invents Act Before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.  The Patent Office stated that the extension was made "[i]n view of stakeholder requests for additional time to submit comments on the new administrative trial proceedings."  Comments on all aspects of PTAB trial proceedings are to be e-mailed to TrialsRFC2014@uspto.gov.

 

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