Litigation
May 28, 2004
Perfecting Patent Procedure
SAN FRANCISCO - Busting bad patents was supposed to be easier and cheaper to do these days. In 1999, Congress created a low-cost procedure for a third party to assert that a patent had wrongly been issued on an invention that was not truly original. These inter partes proceedings could be pursued administratively through the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for the modest filing fee of $8,800.
In 1999, Congress created a low-cost procedure for a third party to assert that a patent had wrongly been issued on an invention that was not truly origin...
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