Each week, we’ll post a round-up of patent reexamination related news from respected intellectual property blogs.  The week of October 24-30, 2009 saw the following news:

Stephen Albainy-Jenei at Patent Baristas writes about ‘Patent Reexamination in the Life Sciences’ after a session at BIO’s IPCC Conference where Gregory Morse of the Central Reexamination Unit of the USPTO gave a presentation of the process for handling re-exams.  Read the full post here: http://www.patentbaristas.com/archives/2009/10/27/patent-reexamination-in-the-life-sciences/.

Kevin Noonen writes at PatentDocs about how “Patent “Reform” May Happen This Year, After All.”  As part of his explanation, he discusses how inter partes reexamination may be affected by post-grant review changes in the current patent reform legislation being debated on the hill.  Read the full post here: http://www.patentdocs.org/2009/10/patent-reform-may-happen-this-year-after-all-1.html.

This week’s Bits and Bytes column from Patently-O mentions both the re-design of the Central Reexamination Unit’s website and updated statistics posting.  Dennis Crouch also provides a shout-out to The Reexamination Center in the column.  Read the full post here: http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2009/10/bits-and-bytes-2.html.