More Information on the Rules of Practice Before the BPAI, Final Rule

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	Proposed Rule change for the Rules of Practice before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences in ExParte Appeals [PDF] (30Jul2007)
	Frequently Asked Questions - Rules of Practice before the BPAI (posted 13Sep2004; updated 4Jan2005).
	Persons authorized to sign new grounds of rejections in Examiners Answers and authorized to approve Supplemental Examiner's Answers by TC (posted 3Mar2006)
	OG Notice Clarification of the Effective Date Provision in the Rules of Practice before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (Final Rule) [PDF] (signed 10Sep2004)
	Effective Date 13 September 2004! Rules of Practice Before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, Final Rule published at 69 Fed. Reg. 49959 [PDF]; 1286 OG 21 (07Sep2004)
	Text of changes to Part 1, Part 5, Part 10 and Part 11; extracted pages 49997 through 50003 [PDF] (posted 10Sep2004) Text of Part 41 [PDF]; extracted pages 50003 through 50020 (posted 10Sep2004) Patent Rules [PDF]
	Slide Set: Rules of Practice Before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, Final Rule (posted 16Sep2004) [HTML text version] (posted 16Sep2004) [Download Zipped Full Version] (posted 16Sep2004)
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