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ABA IP Section Seeks Inequitable Conduct Reform

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Donald Zuhn -- The Federal Circuit's recent decision in Tafas v. Doll, in which the CAFC found that new Rule 265 -- which creates the dreaded Examination Support Document (ESD) -- was both procedural and not inconsistent with the Patent Act (see "Tafas v. Doll (Fed. Cir. 2009)"), and the introduction last week of Senator Jon Kyl's patent reform bill (S. 610), which includes an inequitable conduct provision that transfers final determinations of inequitable conduct from the courts to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (see "Senator Kyl Introduces Alternative to Leahy Patent Reform Bill"), re-focused our attention on...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on March 24, 2009 (boomark / email).