AAU, APLU, the Council on Governmental Relations, the Association of University Technology Managers, and the Association of American Medical Colleges developed a series of recommendations for the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for the Inter Partes Review (IPR) process and Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) proceedings. These recommendations were shared with USPTO Director Andrei Iancu in a meeting with the associations on May 15, 2018.