S 4417
117th Congress
Senate
Commerce
Patent Trial and Appeal Board Reform Act of 2022
Introduced: June 16, 2022
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Jun 16, 2022
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Jun 16, 2022
Introduced in Senate
Plain-English summary
Patent Trial and Appeal Board Reform Act of 2022
This bill modifies the authorities and procedures of the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB), the body within the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO) that decides administrative patent validity challenges and reviews (e.g., inter partes reviews and post-grant reviews).
For example, the bill (1) authorizes the director of the PTO to review and set aside PTAB decisions, (2) modifies the time limits for filing such patent validity challenges at the PTAB, and (3) limits the institution of certain such challenges if the challenges are filed by the same petitioner and includes one or more of the same claims.
What's happening now
Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Committees of jurisdiction
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