Data / Federal rules / 2025-19587
Patent Trial and Appeal Board Rules of Practice for Briefing Discretionary Denial Issues, and Rules for 325(d) Considerations, Instituting Parallel and Serial Petitions, and Termination Due to Settlement Agreement
The Patent and Trademark Office published this proposed rule in the Federal Register on October 17, 2025.
SpecStream is the live web data engine for teams and agents. It reads every rule and proposed rule in the Federal Register each morning, and this page is that reading. Name your industry once and new rules, comment deadlines and effective dates arrive in your sheet, CRM, Slack or agent as they are published.
What the agency says
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO or Office) is withdrawing the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) published in the Federal Register on April 19, 2024, to revise the rules of practice for inter partes review (IPR) and post-grant review (PGR) proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) that the Director and, by delegation, the PTAB use in exercising discretion to institute IPRs and PGRs.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2025-19587
- Type
- Proposed rule
- Action
- Proposed rule; withdrawal
- Agency
- Commerce Department; Patent and Trademark Office
- Published
- October 17, 2025
- Dates
- The proposed rule published in the Federal Register at 89 FR 28693 on April 19, 2024, is withdrawn as of October 17, 2025.
- Docket
- Docket No. PTO-P-2023-0048
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 0651-AD72
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 37 CFR 42
- Pages
- 1
Other documents from the Patent and Trademark Office
Everything from the Patent and Trademark Office · Published in October 2025
Read from the Federal Register API, last updated 2026-10-23. The document on federalregister.gov is the official record; dates and dockets can change through later corrections. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0.