The PTAB Strategies and Insights newsletter provides timely updates and insights into how best to handle proceedings at the USPTO. It is designed to increase return on investment for all stakeholders looking at the entire...more
On October 18, 2022, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) posted two notices on Regulations.gov seeking public input on the requirements to practice before the USPTO and Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB)....more
More than two years have passed since the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) created the Legal Experience and Advancement Program (LEAP) to develop the skill of practitioners in presenting oral arguments to the...more
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) and AIPLA’s PTAB Trial Subcommittee continue to strengthen the Legal Experience and Advancement Program (LEAP), in which the PTAB incentivizes parties to allow junior practitioners...more
On August 7, 2020, the PTAB and the PTAB Bar Association hosted the first ever PTAB Oral Argument Boot Camp for LEAP eligible practitioners which included opening remarks from USPTO Director Andrei Iancu, a mock inter partes...more
Holding its first mock oral arguments, the PTAB provided LEAP eligible participants with a unique opportunity to argue in front of PTAB judges. On August 7, 2020, mock oral PTAB hearings were held virtually with 40 LEAP...more