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Templates and guidance now available for PTAB AIA trials

The PTAB has announced the addition of two templates with companion guidance (and a glossary) that will now

Following stakeholder nomination, USPTO designates as informative an appeal decision addressing Markush groupings

In this decision, the Board reversed an Examiner’s rejection of claims for reciting improper Markush groupings.

USPTO designates as precedential an Appeals Review Panel decision addressing obviousness-type double patenting

Appeals Review Panel reinstates Examiner obviousness-type double patenting rejection based on anti-harassment rationale.

PTAB updates Standard Operating Procedure 1 on assigning judges to panels

PTAB issued Revision 17 of Standard Operating Procedure 1, which sets procedures for assigning judges to panels.

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