Table 14. Summary of Contested Patent Cases



	United States Patent and Trademark Office

Performance and Accountability Report Fiscal Year 2001
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Summary of Contested Patent Cases within the Patent and Trademark Office as of September 30, 2001

TABLE 14

SUMMARY OF CONTESTED PATENT CASES
(Within the Patent and Trademark Office, as of September 30, 2001)

ITEM

TOTAL

Ex parte cases

Appeals /1

Cases Pending as of 9/30/00

6,322

Cases Filed During FY 01

3,854

Disposals During FY 01, total

Decided, total

5,126

Affirmed

1,541

Affirmed-in-Part

465

Reversed

1,884

Dismissed / Withdrawn

143

Remanded

1,093

Cases Pending as of 9/30/01

5,050

Rehearings

Cases Pending as of 9/30/01

Inter partes cases

Cases pending as of 9/30/00

286

Cases declared or reinstituted during FY 01

124

Inter partes cases, FY 01 total

410

Cases terminated during FY 01

193

Cases pending as of 9/30/01

217

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.