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Code of Federal Regulations (Last Updated: May 6, 2024) |
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Title 37 - Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights |
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Chapter I - United States Patent and Trademark Office, Department of Commerce |
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SubChapter A - General |
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Part 1 - Rules of Practice in Patent Cases |
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Subpart H - Inter Partes Reexamination of Patents That Issued From an Original Application Filed in the United States on or After November 29, 1999 |
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Prior Art Citations |
§ 1.902 - Processing of prior art citations during an inter partes reexamination proceeding.
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§ 1.902 Processing of prior art citations during an inter partes reexamination proceeding.
Citations by the patent owner in accordance with § 1.933 and by an inter partes reexamination third party requester under § 1.915 or § 1.948 will be entered in the inter partes reexamination file. The entry in the patent file of other citations submitted after the date of an order for reexamination pursuant to § 1.931 by persons other than the patent owner, or the third party requester under either § 1.913 or § 1.948, will be delayed until the inter partes reexamination proceeding has been concluded by the issuance and publication of a reexamination certificate. See § 1.502 for processing of prior art citations in patent and reexamination files during an ex parte reexamination proceeding filed under § 1.510.
[72 FR 18906, Apr. 16, 2007]