Patent Law

Inter partes re-exam: merely an adjunct to litigation?

By Lawrence B. Ebert, Esq.

IPBiz notes that a similar result would have been likely if "post grant review" (aka opposition) had been created via patent reform 2008. Rather than a low cost alternative to litigation, opposition would have been a higher cost supplement to re-exam (and a lower cost add-on to litigation).

Full post as published by IPBiz on May 27, 2008 (boomark / email).