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Is there a difference between Petitioning the Director of the U.S.P.T.O. and filing an appeal with the the Patent Trial and Appeal Board?

6/29/2017

 
Yes.  According to the MPEP Section 1201:

"The line of demarcation between appealable matters for the Board and petitionable matters for the Director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office should be carefully observed. The Board will not ordinarily hear a question that should be decided by the Director on petition, and the Director will not ordinarily entertain a petition where the question presented is a matter appealable to the Board. Ordinarily, an objection is petitionable, and a rejection is appealable, but when the objection is "determinative of the rejection" the matter may be addressed by the Board. See In re Hengehold, 440 F.2d 1395, 1403, 169 USPQ 473, 479 (CCPA 1971) and Ex parte Frye, 94 USPQ2d 1072, 1078 (Bd. Pat. App. & Int. 2010) (precedential). Some matters which have been determined to be petitionable and not appealable include: a requirement for restriction or election of species, finality, non-entry of amendments, and holdings of abandonment."

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