The final rule changes to Patent Trial and Appeal Board proceedings will likely help to reduce the rate of institution of trials, especially allowing patent owners to include relevant testimonial evidence in preliminary responses. There was one surprise, however, with the USPTO dropping a proposed pilot programme
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