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Mar. 7, 2008

Patent Possibilities

Focus Column - By Jennifer R. Bush and Rajiv P. Patel - Litigants are increasingly turning to re-examinations, either as a means to strengthen patents or as a less costly way to challenge them.

Jennifer R. Bush

Associate, Fenwick & West LLP

Email: jbush@fenwick.com

Jennifer's practice focuses primarily on PTAB trials and patent litigation.

FOCUS COLUMN

By Jennifer R. Bush and Rajiv P. Patel
This article appears on Page 7

      With the potential risk and costs of patent litigation, patent owners increasingly are turning to re-examinations as a means to strengthen patents. At the same time, defendants are turning to re-examinations as a less costly way to challenge patents. There are two types of re-examination: ex parte and inter partes. Ex parte patent re-examination...

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