In contrast, few lawyers specialize exclusively in defensive tactics like invalidation, reexamination and joint defense.
First, look at your own patents and consider cost concerns vis-a-vis both patent reexamination and litigation.
Last March Dudas ordered a rare reexamination of four of Katz's patents, a process that could take several years.
An overall corporate patent reexamination policy and strategy should take into account a number of factors, according to Itri.
The reexamination was overdue because the program was long known to be uneconomic.
The clash played out for weeks, made headlines around the world and led to a public reexamination of the anti-biotech cause.
President Bush and Secretary Rumsfeld directed a reexamination of US forward deployments that is free of old orthodoxies and takes the long view.
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And even after the Supreme Court has ruled on one case, different facts continue to cause reexamination (e.g. issues regarding abortion, affirmative action, to name a few).
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Itri notes significant considerations where a corporation wants to enforce a license to protect a product line a choice that involves consideration of patent reexamination and litigation.
Even his Ukrainian holdings are now subject to prying eyes, as the new president, Victor Yushchenko, calls for a reexamination of how state jewels like the large steel mills were sold off.
The Federal Aviation Administration may be shifting its hard-line stance on the use of personal electronics to allow for a reexamination of the science at work, according to the New York Times.
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Given the potential strategic benefits that stem from patent reexamination, Itri considers it wise to institute corporate processes with the advice of outside counsel in order to determine whether patent reexamination is appropriate.
Should it fail to do so, the Center urges Congress to intervene so as to compel a postponement that would permit a thorough reexamination of the assumptions and the implications of a further liberalization of the multilateral export control regime.
If evidence of Russian support for state-sponsors of terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction were not sufficient to warrant such a reexamination, an article in yesterday's Washington Times entitled, "Russian Nuclear Exercises Include Mock Hit On U.S." should make it mandatory.
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