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Performance and Accountability Report Fiscal Year 2003
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TABLE 14: SUMMARY OF CONTESTED PATENT CASES
(Within the Patent and Trademark Office, as of September 30, 2003)
ITEM
TOTAL
Ex parte cases
AppealsRead Footnote 11

Cases Pending as of 9/30/03

3,090

Cases Filed During FY 2003

2,721


Disposals During FY 2003, total

Decided, total

3,843

Affirmed

1,411

Affirmed-in-Part

  413

Reversed

1,504

Dismissed / Withdrawn

   61

Remanded

  454


Cases Pending as of 9/30/03

1,968

Rehearings

Cases Pending as of 9/30/03

 

Inter partes cases

Cases pending as of 9/30/03

  171

Cases declared or reinstituted during FY 2003

   95

Inter partes cases, FY 03 total

  266


Cases terminated during FY 2003

  159

Cases pending as of 9/30/03

  107

Notes:

1/ Jurisdiction of an appeal passes to the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences after the examiner has written the answer and after the time for filing a reply brief to the answer has passed.Back to Table

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