Ex Parte

• Ex parte procedure

• Rules of Practice Before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences in Ex Parte

The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO or Office) amends the rules governing practice before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (Board or BPAI) in ex parte patent appeals. The Office amends the rules to: Remove several of the briefing requirements for an appeal brief, provide for the Board to take jurisdiction over the appeal earlier in the appeal process, no longer require examiners to acknowledge receipt of reply briefs, create specified procedures under which an appellant can seek review of an undesignated new ground of rejection in either an examiner's answer or in a Board decision, provide that the Board will presume that the appeal is taken from the rejection of all claims under rejection unless cancelled by an applicant's amendment, and clarify that, for ...

• Federal Register Nbr. 76 FR 72270, November 22, 2011
• Rules and Regulations
• United States Patent and Trademark Office

• Ex Parte Cease and Desist and Summary Seizure Orders-Multiple Employer Welfare Arrangements

This document contains two proposed rules under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA) to facilitate implementation of new enforcement authority provided to the Secretary of Labor by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Affordable Care Act). The Affordable Care Act authorizes the Secretary to issue a cease and desist order, ex parte (i.e. without prior notice or hearing), when it appears that the alleged conduct of a multiple employer welfare arrangement (MEWA) is fraudulent, creates an immediate danger to the public safety or welfare, or is causing or can be reasonably expected to cause significant, imminent, and irreparable public injury. The Secretary may also issue a summary seizure order when it appears that a MEWA is in a financially hazardous condi...

• Federal Register Nbr. 76 FR 76235, December 06, 2011
• Proposed rules
• Labor Department

• Ex parte Milligan, 71 U.S. 2, 4 Wall. 2 (1866)

U.S. Supreme Court EX PARTE MILLIGAN, 71 U.S. 2 (1866) 71 U.S. 2 (Wall.) EX PARTE MILLIGAN. December Term, 1866 [Page ...

• U.S. Supreme Court

• 16 CFR 4.7 - Ex parte communications.

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 16: Commercial Practices

• 37 CFR 1.530 - Statement by patent owner in ex parte reexamination; amendment by patent owner in ex parte or inter partes reexamination; inventorship change in ex parte or inter partes reexamination.

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 37: Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights

• 11 CFR 201.3 - Public funding, audits and litigation: Ex parte contacts prohibited.

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 11: Federal Elections

• 17 CFR 10.10 - Ex parte communications.

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 17: Commodity and Securities Exchanges

• 17 CFR 171.6 - Ex parte communications.

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 17: Commodity and Securities Exchanges

• 47 CFR 1.1212 - Procedures for handling of prohibited ex parte presentations.

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 47: Telecommunication

• 21 CFR 10.55 - Separation of functions; ex parte communications.

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 21: Food and Drugs