Posts Tagged: reexamination
America Invents: How the New Law Impacts Your Patent Practice
The America Invents Act, which just recently passed by the Congress and sent to the White House for President Obama’s signature, is the most significant patent …
What’s Wrong with Reexamination and How to Make it Better
The real sin is that reexamination could be a much better process. Those in Congress talk about alleviating the burden on the district courts by having a …
US Patent Office Proposes Adopting Therasense Standard
In view of Therasense, the Patent Office is proposing to revise the materiality standard for the duty to disclose information to the Office in patent applications and …
Torpedoing Patent Rights
The vast number of America’s companies that need patents to prosper and grow should fear the post-grant provisions for challenging patents in H.R. 1249, the patent …
Wanted: Prior Art to Invalidate Lodsys Patents
Article One Partners is at it again, this time with four patents in the cross-hairs owned by the company suing Apple App Developers for patent infringement — Lodsys. …
Inter Partes Reexam: Under Utilized Patent Litigation Defense
In almost all cases, inter partes reexamination is better than ex parte reexamination, except of course where the requester wants to stay anonymous or the application from …
Stay Ordered: Paul Allen Patent Litigation Takes Abrupt Detour
The focus of the litigation now shifts to the Patent Office. How Allen’s patent claims will fare in that forum is unknown, but certainly his odds …
USPTO to Revise Reexam Practice, Is Patent Reform Dead?
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is seeking public comment on a proposal to streamline the procedures governing ex parte and inter partes patent reexamination …
The Problem with Software Patents? Uninformed Critics!
Listening to those who code complain about patents is nearly hysterical. They still haven't figured out that by and large they are not innovators, but rather merely …
Kodak Facing Patent Defeat to Apple & RIM, Patent Reaffirmed by PTO in Reexam Falters at International Trade Commission
The final decision in the ITC case brought by Kodak is expected by May 23, 2011, after deliberation of the full ITC Commission. As we wait for the full …
PLI’s Winter 2011 Schedule Full of Great IP Programs
I am really looking forward to these PLI programs in particular. I will be signed up to attend via webcast the programs I cannot make live, and …
Patent Office Orders Reexamination of Tax Related Patent
Typically the Patent Office allows patent owners and third parties to sort out whether a reexamination is necessary. The thought process is that there is no need …
Microsoft Petitions PTO to Reverse Refusal to Grant Reexam in i4i Dispute, Could Moot Supreme Court Appeal
At the end of December, we learned that Microsoft had petitioned the PTO Director to order reexamination of the ‘449, and this morning that petition has been released …
Smucker Loses Reexam Battles, But May Win Litigation War
The Board’s analysis might interest patent prosecutors who routinely face rejections based on “applicant’s admissions,” not to mention the applicants who feel obliged to submit …
Article One Partners Launches Public Review of NTP Patents
Article One Partners announced yesterday that patents held by NTP Incorporated are the focus of three new requests for research, which Article One Partners refers to as …
