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We will address the PTAB’s updated Standard Operating Procedures in greater depth in a future issue of this newsletter. Meanwhile, we want our readers to be aware of two important revisions to the PTAB Standard Operating Procedures as follows:
- Revised SOP1 – Assignment of Judges
- Explains panel assignment and reassignment practices
- Explains process for expanding panels, with the approval of the director
- Revised SOP2 – Precedential and Informative Decisions
- Creates Precedential Order Panel
- Will rehear matters in PTAB trials and appeals deemed to be of exceptional importance
- Will assist the director in determining when to designate a decision precedential or informative–expect more precedential decisions
- Expected to replace the practice of expanded panel rehearing
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