Inter Partes Re-examination Challenge Rejected

By Ben James (November 12, 2007, 12:00 AM EST) -- The judge overseeing a lawsuit Cooper Technologies Co. brought against the director of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office after a Cooper patent was found to be invalid has rejected Cooper's argument that because the patent could be traced back to an application filed before 1999, it never should have been the focus of an inter partes re-examination....

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