Introduction The authors have recently proposed alternative analyses for the discretionary denial of IPR and PGR petitions involved in parallel district court litigation, as well as for the discretionary denial of serial petitions filed before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (“PTAB”). The PTAB is also currently at a crossroads with yet a third similar but distinct issue—the discretionary denial of parallel petitions filed before the PTAB. “Serial petitions” refer to multiple successive petitions challenging a particular patent that are filed by the same or different petitioners, whereas “parallel petitions” refer to multiple contemporaneous petitions challenging a particular patent that are filed by the same (or a related) petitioner. Although the PTAB has promulgated an analytical factor-based framework for evaluating the discretionary denial of serial petitions, the PTAB has not done so for parallel petitions. Rather, the Board has simply issued general guidance that provides APJ panels with exceedingly broad discretion, providing little predictability for the involved parties or other stakeholders. Thus, rather than propose an alternative analysis for parallel petitions (as the authors have proposed for serial petitions), the authors propose herein a novel factor-based analysis for considering the discretionary denial of parallel PTAB petitions, keeping in mind considerations such as fairness, predictability, consistency, and efficiency.