Post-Issue patentability trials at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board have become wildly more popular than was expected when they were introduced in September 2012.  Petition filing rates have been nearly four times the levels originally predicted.  The following video, available in our PTAB Fundamentals section, discusses PTAB statistics and likely reasons for PTAB-trial popularity.

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