try, including UC Berkeley, Stanford, and Carnegie Mellon, are not ABET-accredited.28 Removing the ABET-accreditation requirement allows the USPTO to increase access to patent practice in “one of the fastest growing areas of patent prosecution and innovation.”29Change 3: Add Clarifying Instructions for Limited Recognition ApplicantsLastly, an applicant who is not a U.S. citizen but is lawfully residing in the U.S. may apply for limited recognition to practice before the USPTO.30 The USPTO added clarifying instructions to the GRB for limited recognition applicants, although the application process itself did not change.31 Rather, the GRB was updated to include more detailed instructions concerning the required documentation.32 Similar to changes one and two, this change simplifies the application for registration, thereby increasing access to the patent office.Expanding Admission Criteria for Registration To Practice in Patent Cases Before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, 88 Fed. Reg. 31249 (May 16, 2023).Expanding Admission Criteria for Registration To Practice in Patent Cases Before the United States Patent and Trademark Office, 87 Fed. Reg. 63044 (Oct. 18, 2022) (requesting comments).United States Patent and Trademark Office, Office of Enrollment and Discipline (OED), General Requirements Bulletin for Admission to the Examination for Registration to Practice in Patent Cases Before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (May 2023), at 3–8, available at https://www.uspto.gov/sites/default/files/documents/OED_GRB.pdf.Id. at 3.Id. at 4.Expanding Admission Criteria, 88 Fed. Reg. at 31250.Supra, note 3, at 8.Expanding Admission Criteria, 87 Fed. Reg. at 63045–46.Expanding Admission Criteria, 88 Fed. Reg. at 31249.Supra, note 3, at 3–9.Expanding Admission Criteria, 88 Fed. Reg. at 31249.35 U.S.C. § 2(b)(2)(D).Comment by the Antitrust Division of the United States Department of Justice, Comments in Response to Expanding Admission Criteria, 87 Fed. Reg. 63044, Dkt. No. PTO-P-2022-0027

e Mitigation Pilot Program to include more technologies, and extending the program until the earlier of June 7, 2027, or the date when 4,000 applications have been granted special status under the program. See news brief here.]Proposed Track Three Pilot Program with a Pre-Examination Search Option, 88 Fed. Reg. 34136 (May 26, 2023) (Written comments due by July 25, 2023) [Requesting comments on a Track Three Pilot program that would permit micro entity applicants to delay payment of search and examination fees for 30 months from the earliest claimed filing date and to obtain a pre-examination search report prior to payment of the examination fee]Future Strategies in Anticounterfeiting and Antipiracy, 88 Fed. Reg. 33872 (May 25, 2023) (Comments due by August 23, 2023) [Requesting information on current anticounterfeiting and antipiracy strategies that have proven effective, as well as ideas for future strategies]Expanding Admission Criteria for Registration to Practice in Patent Cases, 88 Fed. Reg. 31249 (May 16, 2023) [Announcing that the USPTO is updating the admission criteria of the patent bar in light of the favorable comments it received on the proposed updates]Final RulesAdoption of Updated World Intellectual Property Organization Standard; Revision to Incorporation by Reference, 88 Fed. Reg. 34089 (May 26, 2023) [Adopting the recently revised World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Standard ST.26, version 1.6, for incorporation by reference into its regulations addressing application disclosures containing nuclotide and/or amino acid sequences]Interim RulesThere are no new interim rules.Proposed RulesChanges to the Representation of Others in Design Patent Matters, 88 Fed. Reg. 31209 (May 16, 2023) (Written comments due August 14, 2023) [Proposing to amend the rules of practice to create a separate design patent practice bar]PTAB DecisionsNew Precedential PTAB DecisionsThere are no new precedential PTAB decisions.New Informative PTAB DecisionsThere are no new informative PTAB decisio