December 4th, 2009
We’ll post regular round-ups of patent reexamination related news from respected intellectual property blogs and online news sources. The two week period from November 21 – December 4, 2009 saw the following news:
On November 24th, patent reexamination news made headlines for Nvidia and Rambus. See the resulting coverage from Reuters, EE Times and TGDaily at their respective sites.
The Docket Report Blog reports on how a lower standard of review by USPTO does not warrant denial of stay pending reexamination on 11/25. Read the full post here: http://docketreport.blogspot.com/2009/11/lower-standard-of-review-by-pto-does.html.
The November 25th Bits & Bytes column at Patently-O mentions patent reexamination statistics. Read the column here: http://www.patentlyo.com/patent/2009/11/patently-o-bits-and-bytes-2.html.
The 271 Patent Blog reports on a matter in the United States District Court, Southern District of California where evidence relating to reexamination proceedings was excluded from trial. Read the full story here: http://271patent.blogspot.com/2009/11/sd-cal-evidence-relating-to.html. The 271 Patent Blog also reports on how the BPAI has started issuing decisions on the NTP/RIM patent reexaminations. Read that post here: http://271patent.blogspot.com/2009/12/bpai-starts-issuing-decisions-on-ntprim.html.
The Inventive Step blog wrote up a nice summary of the USPTO’s Annual Performance & Accountability Report for FY2009, and included insights about the patent reexamination process. Read their summary here: http://inventivestep.net/2009/12/02/uspto-annual-performance-report/.
IPBlogger reports on the pros and cons of the reissue and patent reexamination systems in the U.S. Read that full post here: http://pharmaipblog.blogspot.com/2009/12/pros-and-cons-of-us-reissue-patent-and.html.
Finally, two lawyer-authored articles appeared online earlier this week concerning the subject of patent reexamination:
- IP Frontline: “Reexamination Evidence and the Presumption of Validity”
- Metropolitan Corporate Counsel: “Controlling The Costs Of Intellectual Property Litigation”