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- Facebook Loses Reexaminations of Pragmatus’ Patents
- How is Reexamination Treating Round Rock Research?
- Reexamination has not Saved Apple against MobileMedia Patents, So Far
- What is an “Involved Application” in IPR Practice?
- Apple Victorious over Affinity Labs of Texas’ Portable Audio Player Patent
- Think IP Strategy Offers 2011 News Almanac
- An Update on Oracle’s Infringement Case against Google
- PTO Requests Public Comment on Proposed Rules for AIA Post-Issuance Proceedings
- Microsoft-i4i, Oracle-Google & VirnetX-Apple-Cisco Updates
- Oracle Patent to Emerge from Reexamination
- VirnetX again Sues for Infringement, and again Faces Reexaminations
- How Strong are Google’s Requests for Reexamination of the Lodsys Patents?
- PTO Board Sides with NVIDIA on Two Rambus “Barth I” Patents
- Oracle ‘520 Moves toward Confirmation in Reexamination
- Google Gets Mixed Result against Oracle’s Seventh Patent
- Did Google Request Reexamination of Lodsys Patents?
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- Oracle v. Google Android® Update
- Rambus Wins Limited Exclusion Order at ITC against NVIDIA, despite Pending Reexaminations
- 最初が肝心：不備のない再審査請求書を作成するために
- That’s My Patent You’re Reexamining…
- “Why Wait for Oppositions?” by Scott Daniels, 47 IDEA 343 (Law Review of Franklin Pierce Law School)
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REJECTION OF SOUND SUPRESSING PATENT REVERSED
| March 11, 2010
After more than four years, U.S. Patent No. 4,833,719 may soon emerge from reexamination, following the PTO Board’s reversal of the examiner’s rejection.
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POST-ISSUANCE REVIEW CHANGES TO REFORM LEGISLATION
| March 7, 2010
The Senate sponsors of the proposed Patent Reform Act of 2010 have changed the reexamination provisions to create more coherent structure for post-issuance review of U.S. patents. Essentially, the changes (found here) protect patentees from harassing reexamination requests and give the PTO greater discretion handling such requests.
The likelihood of passage of the legislation is always in doubt, as shown by Congress’ failures in past years to enact similar reforms.
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REISSUE APPLICANT AVOIDS RECAPTURE RULE
| March 3, 2010
The PTO Board ruled last week that the reissue application claims of In re Marui (USP 6,216,558) did not violate the Recapture Rule.
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BECTON LOSES VACCINE NEEDLE PATENT AT BOARD
| March 3, 2010
We are sometimes asked whether examiners are aggressive in handling reexaminations – do they focus on the specific rejections proposed in the Request, or is their reexamination broader than in scope than the Request.
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REQUESTS FILED LAST WEEK
| March 3, 2010
Reexamination requests are typically reported in the Official Gazette approximately three months after filing. Such a delay in reporting requests, particularly requests that involve copending District Court litigation, is too long. We will therefore report new ex parte and inter partes reexamination requests filed the previous week as they appear on the Patent Office EFS. In some cases, the information available from the Patent Office is still incomplete.
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最初が肝心：不備のない再審査請求書を作成するために
| March 1, 2010
弊事務所は、過去数年間に請求された多くの再審査請求事件をレビューしてきましたが、かなりの割合で請求書が、何らかの記載不備を理由にUSPTOに受理（grant）されなかったことが分かりました。
このような問題を防ぐとともに、PTOにより請求が拒絶（denied)される事態を避けるために、弊事務所では、PTOルールに基づく再審査請求書の要件のチェックリストと、不備のない再審査請求書を提出するための助けとなる実践的なチェックリストを用意しました。以下では、その基本的な部分を紹介しましょう。
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Get It Right The First Time!
| March 1, 2010
We’ve reviewed many requests for reexamination filed over the past few years and found that a large number were not granted in the first action because of one deficiency or another.
To help avoid such a result (e.g., notice from the PTO that your request is incomplete, or even, that your request is denied), we’ve prepared a checklist of requirements under the PTO rules and a checklist of practical suggestions to improve the likelihood that your initial request will be granted.
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