11/22/05 FEDERAL REGISTER Vol. 68, No. 246 Notices DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE (DOC) United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)

[Docket No. 2003-C-031] Request For Comments and Notice of Round Table Meeting Regarding The Equities of Inter Partes Reexamination Proceedings

68 FR 75217

DATE:

Tuesday, December 30, 2003

ACTION:

Request for comments and notice of round table meeting.

SUMMARY:

be The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) seeks comments from former, current and prospective participants and other interested parties on whether reexamination proceedings are believed to

inequitable

inter partes

to any of the parties in interest and, if so, what changes are suggested to remove such inequities. As a part of this effort, USPTO announces the scheduling of a round table meeting to receive views on the effectiveness and possible improvement of

inter partes

reexamination proceedings.

DATES:

Comments must be received by February 20, 2004, to ensure consideration. Requests to participate in the round table meeting must be received by January 28, 2004. The USPTO will make reasonable efforts to balance the interests represented at the round table meeting. If it becomes necessary to limit the number of participants, preference will be given to first in-time requests to participate. The round table meeting is tentatively scheduled for February 17, 2004, at USPTO offices in Arlington, Virginia.

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Public Comments Received Regarding Inter Partes Reexamination Proceedings

Transcript from Round Table Meeting As of March 15, 2004, the organizations and persons listed below have submitted comments in response to the "Request for Comments and Notice Regarding Round Table Meeting Regarding Equities of Inter Partes Reexamination Proceedings" in the Federal Register at

68 Fed. Reg. 75217

[pdf] (December 30, 2003).

Please note that the following documents are provided as submitted by persons and organizations but may contain artifacts of scanning, OCR, or document format conversion.

A. Organizations

Michael K. Kirk

[pdf file],

Executive Director, American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) Dan Ravicher [pdf file] , Executive Director, Public Patent Foundation (PubPat) J. Jeffrey Hawley [pdf file], President, Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO)

B. Law Firms, Patent Attorneys, Patent Agents

Robert Asher [pdf file], Attorney, Bromberg & Sunstein

C. Businesses, Associations

Marc Block [pdf file], Consulting Attorney, IBM

D. Individuals; Other

Paul Morgan [pdf file] Robert Mukai [pdf file] http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/dapp/opla/comments/ reexamproceed/public_comments.htm

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