Generally, the PTAB does not allow live testimony at oral argument, but recently it designated one of its 2014 decisions as precedential to give guidance as to when the Board will allow live testimony ...

The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”) recently designated two decisions as precedential, and one as informative, that concern its discretion to institute inter partes review. The decisions ...

“A lawsuit filed against the USPTO’s implementation of the Fintiv discretionary denial framework by major tech companies underscores issues that the agency might face if the new nomination form leads ...

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The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today announced that it is retiring the Precedential Opinion Panel (POP) and extending the Director Review process to decisions on institution in ...

After a relatively busy 2020 in which the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) designated over a dozen opinions as either precedential (11) or informative (4), the PTAB did not designate a single ...

At Managing IP’s PTAB Forum 2016, acting PTAB chief judge Nathan Kelley said that precedential decisions help bring consistency both within the Board and for practitioners before the Board. "That’s ...