Federal Circuit Gives Big Nod To The Patent Office
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Federal Circuit Gives Big Nod To The Patent Office
A recent Federal Circuit decision effectively enables defendants
in patent infringement suits two parallel chances for challengingvalidity of asserted patents: in court and in the U.S. Patent andTrademark Office ("PTO"), which applies a lowerevidentiary standard than a court proceeding.In its September 4, 2008 ruling in In re Swanson, theFederal Circuit affirmed a decision of the Board of Patent Appealsand Interferences, in which...See the full content of this document
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