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It added: “In inter partes re-examination, any further submission of evidence (including declarations, affidavits, and test data) by the Tird Party Requester in the proceeding will be limited to rebutting a point made in an examiner’s Office action or in a Patent Owner’s response.”
“In ex parte re-examination, the further submission of evidence by the Tird Party Requester will be limited to rebutting a point made in the Patent Owner’s statement under 35 U.S.C. 304, if any such statement is filed. In all cases, when submitting new evidence, the Tird Party Requester must identify the specific point to be rebutted and explain how the new evidence rebuts it.”
In a statement, USPTO Director David Kappos said: “We recognise that patent re-examination is one of the most important functions of the USPTO, because these patents oſten have significant commercial value and are usually involved in concurrent litigation. By resolving these disputes more quickly, we can make patent re-examination a better mechanism for reviewing patent validity.”
Te public meeting will be held at USPTO headquarters on June 1. Written comments must be submitted by May 11.
Two heads are better than one
Legal service provider LexisNexis has announced a new semantic search technology that will aid patent research efforts.
Te patent research and retrieval service LexisNexis TotalPatent, the automated patent application and analysis product PatentOptimizer, and IP research across patent and non-patent literature conducted on the
lexis.com legal research service will use the semantic search technology.
Semantic search technology uses the meaning of language as well as the words themselves to produce search results. LexisNexis has employed this technology for 18 months.
Te new semantic search technology will continue to do this while also identifying multiple concepts contained within a single search query, meaning that a patent researcher will be presented with a variety of possible ideas that could relate to the search request.
“We believe that the most important brain in the patent research process is the researcher’s own brain,” said Steven Errick, vice president of
“ WHEN THE USER EXPERIENCE IS COMBINED WITH THE SEMANTIC SEARCH CAPABILITY, IT BECOMES A POWERFUL TOOL THAT CAN DELIVER THE MOST PRECISE AND RELEVANT PATENT SEARCH RESULTS AVAILABLE IN THE INDUSTRY.”
research information at LexisNexis. “When the user experience is combined with the semantic search capability, it becomes a powerful tool that can deliver the most precise and relevant patent search results available in the industry.”
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