{"id":23927,"date":"2018-09-13T15:15:26","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T19:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipo.org\/?p=23927"},"modified":"2018-10-24T15:22:59","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T19:22:59","slug":"the-revised-ptab-trial-guide-and-other-recent-ptab-developments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipo.org\/index.php\/the-revised-ptab-trial-guide-and-other-recent-ptab-developments\/","title":{"rendered":"The Revised PTAB Trial Guide and Other Recent PTAB Developments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The August release of revisions to the PTAB Trial Practice Guide is of major importance to both patent owners and petitioners. Our program features Lead Chief Administrative Patent Judge Michael Tierney, who continues to play a leading role in devising the rules for proceedings under the AIA, in a discussion with two top PTAB litigators. This revision is the first major update of the Guide since its publication in August 2012.<b><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The panelists will discuss the reasoning behind each change and explain how these revisions will impact PTAB practice. All of the major revisions to the Guide will be addressed, including:<\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li>The introduction of a sur\u00adreply to\u2028the prior sequence of briefs<\/li>\n<li>The circumscribed role to be played by expert evidence<\/li>\n<li>The introduction of a new prehearing conference call, which some commentators predict has the potential to be as important as the main oral hearing<\/li>\n<li>Clarifications regarding motions to strike and motions to exclude<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Speakers:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Michael Tierney<i>, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Tarek Fahmi, <i>Ascenda Law Group<\/i><\/li>\n<li>Eliot Williams, <i>Baker Botts LLP<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The August release of revisions to the PTAB Trial Practice  [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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