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2629 - 2600 Optional Inter Partes Reexamination
2629 Notice of Request for Inter Partes Reexamination in Official Gazette [Added R-2]
37 CFR 1.11 Files open to the public.
(c) All requests for reexamination for which the fee under § 1.20(c) has been paid, will be announced in the Official Gazette. Any reexaminations at the initiative of the Director pursuant to § 1.520 will also be announced in the Official Gazette. The announcement shall include at least the date of the request, if any, the reexamination request control number or the Director initiated order control number, patent number, title, class and subclass, name of the inventor, name of the patent owner of record, and the examining group to which the reexamination is assigned.
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(d) All papers or copies thereof relating to a reexamination proceeding which have been entered of record in the patent or reexamination file are open to inspection by the general public, and copies may be furnished upon paying the fee therefor.
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Notice of filing of all complete requests for inter partes reexamination will be published in the Official Gazette, approximately 4-5 weeks after filing.
Under 37 CFR 1.11(c), reexamination requests will be announced in the Official Gazette. The reexamination preprocessing staff of the Office of Patent Legal Administration, Central Reexamination Unit (CRU) will complete a form with the information needed to print the notice. The forms are forwarded at the end of each week to the Office of Publications for printing in the Official Gazette. The Official Gazette notice will appear in the notice section of the Official Gazette under the heading of Requests for Inter Partes Reexamination Filed and will include the name of any requester along with the other items set forth in 37 CFR 1.11(c).
In addition, a record of requests filed will be located in the Patent Search Room and in the reexamination preprocessing area of the CRU. Office personnel may use the PALM system to determine if a request for reexamination has been filed in a particular patent. See MPEP § 2632.
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