Type:Rule
Citation:86 FR 3815
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The Commerce Department and the Patent and Trademark Office have issued a correction related to a rule on allocating the burden of persuasion on motions to amend in trial proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. This correction appears in the rule document C2-2020-28159. Initially, a correction was issued in a previous document but has now been withdrawn as of January 13, 2021. The document was officially filed on January 14, 2021.
Simple Explanation
The Commerce Department and the Patent and Trademark Office tried to change a rule about how people should argue their case when they want to change something in a patent trial. They made a mistake trying to fix it before, so now they are saying the earlier fix is no longer in place.