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<\/a><\/p>\nOf course the one reason why Supplemental Examination has languished is the Therasense’s but for<\/em> materiality standard.\u00a0 See, Therasense v. Becton Dickinson <\/em>99 U.S.P.Q. 2d 1065, 1074 (Fed. Cir 2011).\u00a0 After Therasense<\/em>, \u00a0If the invention is not found unpatentable over the reference, then that reference is\u00a0not material (of course even if the patent survives the litigation, it might still be found unpatentable over the reference under the Patent Office’s lower evidentiary standard.<\/p>\nOf course there are other ways to commit inequitable conduct besides failing to disclose material prior art, such as false claim of small entity status\u00a0(Outside the Box Innovations v. Travel Caddy<\/em>), false statements regarding late payment of maintenance fees (Network Signatures, Inc. v. State Farm Mut. Auto. Ins. Co.<\/em>), false statements in supporting declarations\u00a0 (eSpeed v. Brokertec<\/em>); failure to disclose the relationship between the declarant and the applicant (Ferring B.V. v. Barr Laboratories, Inc.<\/em>).<\/p>\nWith just 80 takers in over two years,\u00a0Supplemental Examination\u00a0seems like a solution in search of a problem.<\/p>\n
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One of the few benefits to inventors in the AIA was the creation of Supplemental Examination, a procedure by which a patent owner could “cure” possible inequitable conduct.\u00a0 However in two years, only 80\u00a0requests for\u00a0Supplemental Examination have been filed. Of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipmanagement.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipmanagement.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipmanagement.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipmanagement.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipmanagement.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ipmanagement.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41,"href":"https:\/\/ipmanagement.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/41"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipmanagement.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipmanagement.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipmanagement.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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