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Revision to Rules of Practice Before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board
The Patent and Trademark Office published this proposed rule in the Federal Register on October 17, 2025. Comments closed on November 17, 2025.
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What the agency says
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO or Office) proposes modifications to the rules of practice for inter partes review (IPR) before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB or Board) that the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of USPTO and, by delegation, the PTAB will use in instituting IPR.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2025-19580
- Type
- Proposed rule
- Action
- Notice of proposed rulemaking
- Agency
- Commerce Department; Patent and Trademark Office
- Published
- October 17, 2025
- Comments due
- November 17, 2025
- Dates
- Comments must be received by November 17, 2025 to ensure consideration. The Office does not anticipate granting an extension to the comment period, absent extraordinary circumstances.
- Docket
- Docket No. PTO-P-2025-0025
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 0651-AD89
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 37 CFR 42
- Topics
- Administrative practice and procedure; Inventions and patents; Lawyers
- Pages
- 7
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