Comments in Support of the USPTO Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Revision to Rules of Practice Before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board
A broad coalition including current and former members of Congress, tech companies, manufacturers, individual inventors, startups, academics, legal experts and conservative groups have submitted comments in support of USPTO’s proposed rule to reform Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) procedures to make them more fair for inventors.
Key supportive comments to USPTO include the following:
- Innovation Alliance
- Senators Coons and Tillis and Representatives Moran and Ross
- Former House Judiciary Chairman Lamar Smith (co-author of 2011 America Invents Act that created PTAB)
- Alliance of U.S. Startups & Inventors for Jobs (USIJ)
- Coalition for 21st Century Patent Reform (21C)
- Council for Innovation Promotion (C4IP)
- AUTM
- Medical Device Manufacturers Association (MDMA)
- Conservatives for Property Rights
- Conservative Coalition
- Adeia
- Dolby
- InterDigital
- Amy Semet, University of Buffalo School of Law
- Dr. Alexander Raskovich, Intellectual Property Policy Institute
- Jim Harlan, Patent Attorney
Read the comments here.