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The PTAB Chats Designs: And Now, for Something Completely Different, <i>PTAB Litigation Blog</i>

The PTAB Chats Designs: And Now, for Something Completely Different, PTAB Litigation Blog

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On February 1, the PTAB held its first "Boardside Chat" of 2018, which featured three judges discussing appeals and AIA trial proceedings for design patents. Not only are such proceedings less common for design patents than for their utility counterparts, but they also invoke some different statutes, case law, and standards that may seem foreign to those who are more used to working with utility patents.

Read the full article at ptablitigationblog.com.

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