The PTAB’s Motion to Amend Pilot Program, offering a revamped and more robust opportunity for amendment to patent owners during America Invents Act (“AIA”) trials, was launched well over a year ago in March of 2019. On July 15, 2020, the PTAB released a sixth installment of their Motion to Amend Study (“6th MTA Study”), which includes data relating to patent owners’ use of the Motion to Amend (“MTA”) Pilot Program. What does the data tell us? Have motions to amend become more popular? Are they being granted more often? As described below, the initial data appears to show that that there have been less motions to amend requested.
