I. Challenges of Examining Claims for Definiteness and Interpreting Claims in Litigation: Improving Patent Notice and Claim Interpretation
- A. Federal Trade Commission, The Evolving IP Marketplace: Aligning Patent Notice and Remedies with Competition, Executive Summary (portion relating to Patent Notice recommendations) (2011)
- B. Additional Potential Reforms to Improve Patent Notice and Claim Construction
- C. Presentation by Robert Stoll
- D. US PTO, Supplementary Examination Guidelines for Determining Compliance With 35 U.S.C. §112 and for Treatment of Related Issues in Patent Applications, 76 Federal Register 7162-75 (Feb. 9, 2011)
- E. Comments from the Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) re: Supplementary Examination Guidelines for Determining Compliance with 35 U.S.C. §112 (Apr. 11, 2011)
- F. Federal Trade Commission, The Evolving IP Marketplace: Aligning Patent Notice and Remedies with Competition, Chapter 3: Patent Notice: A Competition Perspective (2011)
II. Managing Concurrent Reexamination and District Court Litigation
- A. Menell, Pasahow, Pooley, and Powers, Patent Case Management Judicial Guide, Section 2.2.6.3 PTO Actions—Re-examination and Re-issue (2009)
- B. Presentation by Robert W. Bahr: Reexamination at the PTO
- C. Presentation by Elaine Gin
- D. Streamlined patent reexamination Proceedings: Notice of Public Meeting
- E. Robert Greene Sterne, Jon E.Wright & Lori A. Gordon, Reexamination Practice with Concurrent District Court Litigation or Section 337 USITC Investigations, 10 Sedonna Conference Journal 115 (2009)
- F. Selection of Recent Cases Addressing Stays Pending Reexamination