Each week, we’ll post a round-up of patent reexamination related news from respected intellectual property blogs.  The week of October 30 – November 6, 2009 saw the following news:

Earlier this week, Patently-O published a guest column from Matthew Smith at Foley & Lardner on the subject of stays pending reexamination.  Read that column here: http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2009/11/the-following-guest-post-is-by-matthew-smiththe-grant-rate-of-motions-to-stay-is-highly-judge-dependent-and-somewhat-less-ob.html.

This week’s Bits and Bytes column from Patently-O mentions patent reexamination, and points to a recent blog post from law firm Westerman Hattori.  Read that full post here: http://www.whdapatentlaw.com/blog/2009-11/reexamination-statistics.php.

The group at Oblon Spivak take a closer look at requests to stay Section 337 investigations pending reexamination on the ITC 337 Law Blog. Read the full post here: http://www.itcblog.com/20091106/a-closer-look-at-requests-to-stay-section-337-investigations-pending-reexamination-at-the-u-s-patent-trademark-office/.