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Changes to Implement Miscellaneous Post Patent Provisions of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (US Patent and Trademark Office Regulation) (PTO) (2018 Edition) The Law Library

Changes to Implement Miscellaneous Post Patent Provisions of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (US Patent and Trademark Office Regulation) (PTO) (2018 Edition) The Law Library presents the complete text of the Changes to Implement Miscellaneous Post Patent Provisions of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (US Patent and Trademark Office Regulation) (PTO) (2018 Edition). Updated as of May 29, 2018 The Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (AIA) expands the scope of information that any party may cite in a patent file to include written statements of a patent owner filed in a proceeding before a Federal court or the United States Patent and Trademark Office (Office) regarding the scope of any claim of the patent, and provides for how such information may be considered in ex parte reexamination, inter partes review, and post grant review. The AIA also provides for an estoppel that may attach with respect to the filing of an ex parte reexamination request subsequent to a final written decision in an inter partes review or post grant review proceeding. The Office is revising the rules of practice to implement these post-patent provisions, as well as other miscellaneous provisions, of the AIA. This book contains: - The complete text of the Changes to Implement Miscellaneous Post Patent Provisions of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act (US Patent and Trademark Office Regulation) (PTO) (2018 Edition) - A table of contents with the page number of each section