# Amendments to the Rules of Practice for Trials Before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board
> **US Patent and Trademark Office** · Final rule. · Published 2015-05-19 · Effective 2015-05-19 · 80 FR 28561
## Document
- **Document number:** 2015-12117
- **Category:** other
- **Sub-agency:** US Patent and Trademark Office
- **Federal Register citation:** 80 FR 28561
- **CFR reference:** 37 CFR 42
- **Publication date:** 2015-05-19
- **Effective date:** 2015-05-19
- **Commerce docket:** Docket No. PTO-P-2015-0032
## Abstract

This final rule amends the existing consolidated set of rules relating to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (Office or USPTO) trial practice for inter partes review, post-grant review, the transitional program for covered business method patents, and derivation proceedings that implemented provisions of the Leahy-Smith America Invents Act ("AIA") providing for trials before the Office.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2015/05/19/2015-12117/amendments-to-the-rules-of-practice-for-trials-before-the-patent-trial-and-appeal-board)
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