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Quality In Open Access: Flashing Lights And Fairy Tales, Amanda Page
Quality In Open Access: Flashing Lights And Fairy Tales, Amanda Page
Libraries' and Librarians' Publications
Presentation given as invited panelist at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) for the 21st Century Scholarship Unlocked; Selecting and Accessing Publishers Symposium
Supplemental Examinations To Consider, Reconsider, Or Correct Patent-Related Information: A Tangled Web Indeed, Lisa Dolak
College of Law - Faculty Scholarship
A pending legislative proposal would authorize the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) to undertake a “supplemental examination” of an issued patent to “consider, reconsider, or correct information believed to be relevant to the patent.” It would further bar the federal courts from holding a patent unenforceable “on the basis of conduct relating to information” considered during supplemental examination.
The obvious intent of the proposal is to constrain the federal courts’ power to entertain inequitable conduct-based challenges. Its emergence is unsurprising, given the mounting dissatisfaction with the courts’ application of the inequitable conduct doctrine. However, because the bill proposes to …