The USPTO’s Pre-Appeal Brief Conference Pilot Program was introduced in July of 2005. It was designed to solve a problem wherein applicants would prepare an expensive and time-consuming appeal brief, ...

The USPTO announced their new Post-Prosecution Pilot Program, or P3 program for after-final review of a patent application. The P3 program is billed as being similar to the Pre-Appeal Conference but ...

Over the last 10 years, the Appellate Division, First Department, has developed what is called the pre-argument conference, or "conference before the conference"—what the authors describe as a "unique ...