Presentations |
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Intellectual Venture's Matt Rainey - 77 pages covering many AIA aspects in detail by someone who was very involved. |
9-19-11 |
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USPTO Presentation - What it means for the USPTO and the Challenges ahead |
9-29-11 |
Cases |
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Inter partes reexam |
Bettcher - Federal Circuit rules that the estoppel provision associated with inter partes reexamination under 35 U.S.C. § 315(c) is triggered not when examination is completed but only after all appeal rights have been exhausted.(Bryson, Linn, Reyna). |
10-3-11 |
Reexam |
Marine Polymer - Federal Circuit (Lourie, Gajarsa, Dyk) Intervening rights allowed to apply while reexamination process is ongoing. Note that the PTO's Intent to issue reexam issued shortly after district court's final judgment was entered.
"We see no reason why this rule, giving effect to disclaimer of claim scope during reexamination or reissue, should not also apply in the context of intervening rights. In fact, a contrary rule would allow patentees to abuse the reexamination process by changing claims through argument rather than changing the language of the claims to preserve otherwise invalid claims and, at the same time, avoid creating intervening rights as to those claims. Therefore, if the scope of the claims actually and substantively changed because of Marine Polymer’s arguments to the PTO, the claims have been amended by disavowal or estoppel, and intervening rights apply. This is so even though Marine Polymer did not amend the language of its claims on reexamination."
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9-26-11 |
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