In roughtly the first six months since the AIA created Inter Partes Review, 189 petitions for Inter Partes Review have been filed:
In contrast only a handfull (17) of covered business method reviews have been filed:
Monthly Archives: March 2013
Only Eleven Mistakes?
One of the improvements made by the AIA is the ability to requset Supplemental Examiantion to cure defects in a patent. Since September 2012, only eleven such requests has been filed as illustrated in this graph from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office:
Preissuance Submissions
The AIA made it easier for third parties to submit prior art relating to pending patent applications through Preissuance Submissions. The AIA expanded the time for making such submissions, guaranteeing third parties at least six motnhs from publication to make the submission (unless the application is allowed sooner), and allowing such submissions until the first substantive Since September 16, 2012, 529 Preissuance Submissions have been made, as illustrated in this graph from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.