AIA Overview

As you may know, the changes that occurred with the passing and implementation of the AIA were extensive. We’ve reformatted and compiled a fairly comprehensive summary of those changes including, but not limited to:

• Inventor’s Oath or Declaration

• Supplemental Examination

• Preissuance Submission

• Ethics

• Citation of Patent Owner Claim Scope Statement

• Administrative Patent Trial Final Rules

• Post Grant Review

• Inter Partes Review

• Transitional Program for Covered Business Methods

• First-Inventor-to-File Proposed Rules and Examination Guidelines

Briefly, for each topic, you’ll get a quick summary overview, a list of important dates or rules to remember, FAQs about each topic (if there are any) that the USPTO has provided on their website, and then our own summary materials as well as the USPTO federal registers and rules for each topic.

Please see the material tab above for a .pdf guide of all the pre/post AIA rule changes broken into each topic.