New interim processes relating to institution in AIA proceedings and PTAB workload management were introduced on March 26, 2025. The Board will discuss the details and host a question-and-answer session.
PTAB Boardside Chats
The PTAB Boardside Chat webinar series addresses best practices before the Board and answers questions raised by attendees. The free, bi-monthly Boardside Chats are open to all.
Register for an upcoming Boardside Chat or see presentations from past sessions below.
Past events
Join this Boardside Chat to learn about the final rules governing Director Review of PTAB decisions and final rules on the PTAB’s Motion to Amend procedure in AIA proceedings
This discussion about discovery in America Invents Act proceedings will address topics such as routine and additional discovery, rules and procedures, motions that are available, and common mistakes.
Join the next Boardside Chat webinar for a discussion about motions practice in AIA proceedings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
Learn about the latest notices of proposed rulemaking before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
Join the next Boardside Chat webinar on Thursday, March 21, from noon to 1 p.m. ET, for a discussion about hearings before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
Join the next PTAB Boardside Chat webinar for a discussion about certain issues that typically arise during an AIA proceeding before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
This webinar will discuss the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on PTAB’s pre-issuance internal decision circulation and review.
Join the next Boardside Chat webinar on Thursday, September 21, from noon to 1 p.m. ET, for a discussion with in-house counsel on their perspectives on AIA trial proceedings before the PTAB.
Learn about the Revised Interim Director Review, Delegated Rehearing Panel, and Appeals Review Panel Processes at the PTAB
A discussion about certain issues that typically arise during an AIA proceeding before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
Learn about the Request for Comments Regarding Motion to Amend Practice before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB)
ANPRM
Fireside Chat with Chief Judge Clark Cheney of the International Trade Commission
Meet Deputy Director Derrick Brent and learn more about eligibility to practice before the USPTO
A discussion about effectively presenting technology to the PTAB in AIA proceedings. A panel of PTAB judges and practitioners will share tips on making complex technology understandable and discuss effective brief samples.
A Boardside Chat discussion and demonstration about how to use the new P-TACTS external portal for practitioners, including highlights of new features.
Learn about the use of expert testimony in AIA proceedings
PTAB Judges will present ten ways to improve ex parte appeal briefs and share practice tips with examples for enhancing the arguments presented in your appeal briefs.
Learn about the Request for Comments on Director review, Precedential Opinion Panel Review, and internal circulation and review of Patent Trial and Appeal Board decisions.
Learn about the PTAB Judicial Law Clerk Program
Discussion of discretionary denials in AIA post-gran proceedings with parallel district court proceedings and parallel study.
Join the next Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Boardside Chat webinar to learn about plans to re-establish in-person PTAB hearings and tips from judges for successfully arguing in remote and in-person environments.
Learn about the USPTO’s pro bono programs.
Behind the Scenes at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board with the Board Operations Division
PTAB discussion with an overview of the Office of the Solicitor.
PTAB Boardside Chat webinar evaluating common arguments before the PTAB, focusing primarily on arguments in ex parte appeals cases.
Learn about the PTAB Judicial Law Clerk Program
Learn about your options after a final rejection
Learn about the Interim Director's review process post Arthrex.
Mechanics of admission to practice before the PTAB
Learn about preparing an appeal brief
Learn about remote hearings
PTAB webinar about AIA motions practice
Learn about recent developments for ex parte appeals
Learn about recent developments for AIA trials
Join the next Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Boardside Chat webinar for a discussion about several aspects of AIA trial proceedings and new submission forms for SOP2-related matters. Join the discussion online the day of the event. The webinar is free and open to all. A Q&A session will follow...
Join the next Boardside Chat webinar for a discussion about several aspects of ex parte appeals. Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Vice Chief Judges Mike Kim and Janet Gongola will share information about current appeal pendency statistics and the new Fast-Track Appeal Pilot Program through which...
Learn from PTAB about the USPTO's prioritized programs
A presentation on use of demonstratives, effective use of hearing time, decorum, and the logistics of an oral hearing.
Learn about new developments in AIA trials
A webinar with Deputy Chief Judge Jackie Bonilla, Vice Chief Judge Janet Gongola, Lead Judge Stacey White, and Judges Amanda Wieker and Christa Zado on use of demonstratives, effective use of hearing time, decorum, and the logistics of an oral hearing.
Everything you need to know about appearing before PTAB these days
Motion to amend practice in AIA trials
Learn the latest about AIA trials for independent inventors
Learn more about appeals for independent inventors
Learn about changes and improvements to PTAB practice and procedures in fiscal year 2019
Learn about this summer's precedential and informative PTAB decisions
Learn the latest about PTAB appeal and AIA hearings
Learn more about Trial Practice Guide updates
Learn More about the Biologic Study and District Court Pharma Litigation Study
Learn more about Broadest Reasonable Interpretation v. Phillips
Learn more about recently-issued PTAB precedential and informative decisions
Learn about new guidance on patent eligible subject matter
Options for Reissue and Reexamination during AIA Trials, and the Parallel Proceedings Study