A requester can have a voice in ex parte reexamination prosecution. Requesters should strategically structure their request documents to hedge against potential patent owner amendment and argument.

As covered in our prior alert, the USPTO’s new pre-order paper procedure allows a patent owner to file a 30-page paper within ...

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“Netlist added that the requestor’s anonymity… weighed further in favor of denial because it foreclosed any application of estoppel.” Although U.S. Patent Application No. 20080256282 (“Guo”) was not ...

While a requester may not be able to require that a public record be produced in a format other than that in which it is maintained, agreements to produce records in alternate formats can be and have ...