What does APJ stand for?

Inter partes reexaminations would be changed so that they would be conducted before an administrative patent judge at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.

Following submissions of evidence from both sides and a review conducted by the United States Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI), a panel of Administrative Patent Judges reached a decision on preliminary motions ordering that the Leiden applicants be denied the benefit of their priority applications, that the interference be re-declared to reflect Hammond's status as the "senior" or earlier party, and that Hammond be granted a motion that the Leiden claims are unpatentable over the prior art, including the Hammond applications.

As an Administrative Patent Judge on the USPTO's Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, Dr.

The proceedings will be before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences, and presided over by an Administrative Patent Judge.

Then, without conducting a prior conference call with the administrative patent judge (APJ), as required by the standing order, Bilstad filed a miscellaneous motion seeking leave to belatedly file the amended claims.

Preliminary statements are placed in a sealed envelope before filing, and kept at the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences until the Administrative Patent Judge in charge of the case orders that they be opened.