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S 4417 117th Congress Senate Commerce

Patent Trial and Appeal Board Reform Act of 2022

Introduced: June 16, 2022 See on congress.gov
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.
Jun 16, 2022
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 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

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 June 16, 2022

Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

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 Committees of jurisdiction 1
 Cosponsors 2
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Cornyn, John
Texas · Jun 16, 2022
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Tillis, Thomas
North Carolina · Jun 16, 2022
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 4417: Patent Trial and Appeal Board Reform Act of 2022. 117th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-4417/
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"S. 4417: Patent Trial and Appeal Board Reform Act of 2022." 117th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-4417/.
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S. 4417, 117th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-4417/.
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[S. 4417: Patent Trial and Appeal Board Reform Act of 2022](https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-4417/)
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