In this week's post, we see that the USPTO released new resources to help guide inventors and attorneys through drafting ex parte appeal briefs.

The USPTO Presents New Appeal Brief Resources

The US Patent and Trademark Office has released new resources for filing an Ex Parte Appeal brief.  An appeal brief may be filed during prosecution of a patent application, on claims that have been rejected twice, or claims that have had a final rejection. By filing an appeal brief, the appellant is asking the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) to review the case.  

Appeal briefs are not common in a lot of cases, so pro se inventors or attorneys who have never gotten to this point may be unfamiliar with the process.  The new resources released are targeted at these people and designed to help them draft their first appeal brief to the PTAB. 

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In addition to publishing Thriving Attorney, Darin M. Klemchuk is founder of Klemchuk LLP, a litigation, intellectual property, and transactional law firm located in Dallas, Texas. Click to read more about Darin Klemchuk's practice as an intellectual property lawyer. For more on the latest developments in IP law, see the blogs Ideate and IP Questions Answered.