Table 14: Summary of Contested Patent Cases

Performance and Accountability Report Fiscal Year 2005
Other Accompanying Information

TABLE 14: SUMMARY OF CONTESTED PATENT CASES
*(Within the Patent and Trademark Office, as of September 30, 2005)*
ITEM	TOTAL
Ex parte cases
Appeals¹
Cases Pending as of 9/30/05	985
Cases Filed During FY 2005	2,834
Disposals During FY 2005, total
Decided, total	2,937
Affirmed	1,121
Affirmed-in-Part	366
Reversed	1,163
Dismissed / Withdrawn	111
Remanded	176
Cases Pending as of 9/30/05	882
Rehearings
Cases Pending as of 9/30/05	21
Inter partes cases
Cases pending as of 9/30/05	76
Cases declared or reinstituted during FY 2005	94
Inter partes cases, FY 2005 total	170
Cases terminated during FY 2005	96
Cases pending as of 9/30/05	74
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 text)

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