Welcome to the USPTO e-FOIA page. Through this page you can search for publicly available final decisions rendered by the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences. In the field below you can enter a proceeding number to search the collection of available decisions. If you do not have a proceeding number but you know the caption of the case you are looking for, for example ABC Co. v. University of Illinois, or you know a text string found in the case you can search the collection by using the "Search Document Text" field by typing the text string in the search field. The Final Decision date range starts on July 1, 1997

E-FOIA postings of the Final Decisions of the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences will not be available from 1:00 AM through 5:00 AM Eastern Standard Time during the daily back up process.