Original air date: May 11, 2016. AIA Series Part 3: Regulatory and Policy Implementation. How to understand the rules of the road for the AIA and how those rules were made.
Brian R. Stanton of Stanton Consulting Services,
Gregory D. Allen of 3M Innovative Properties Company, and
James Crowne, AIPLA's Deputy Executive Director of Legal Affairs, will lead you through the significant role played by rules and regulations of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in the implementation of the AIA. Their discussion, which is based on content from the newly released treatise entitled “Patents After the AIA-The Evolving Law and Practice,” will include a high-level review of the purpose and process for establishing such rules and regulations, the ability of the public or interested parties to comment on and even challenge them, and the deference afforded to them by the courts. The discussion will also touch on the various types of executive and quasi-judicial actions used in governmental administration, and the overlay that must be applied under the Administrative Procedures Act (APA) in effecting such actions, particularly as used by the USPTO.