The Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) created an online form that allows individuals to submit amicus requests supporting or opposing a pending request for Precedential Opinion Panel (POP) review in a pending trial or patent application. The form requires submitters to provide certain information about themselves and the case/application in which the POP request has been made, and explain why the submitters support/oppose the request. Forms must be submitted no later than seven business days after the Notification of Receipt of POP Request is entered in the case docket or application file, and the information submitted with the form will be entered into the record for the case/application.
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