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Collage showing U S P T O Director Jon Dudas, Patent Commissioner John Doll, the U S P T O 'Our Record-Breaking Year' banner, as well as images of fiscal year 2006 U S P T O activities. Image is part of the header for the U S P T O Performance and Accountability Report for Fiscal Year 2006
Performance and Accountability Report Fiscal Year 2006
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TABLE 13A: EX PARTE REEXAMINATION
(FY 2002 - FY 2006)
ACTIVITY 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
Requests filed, total 272 392 441 524 511
By patent owner 121 136 166 166 129
By third party 140 239 268 358 382
Commissioner ordered  11  17   7   -   -

Determinations on requests, total Read Footnote 11		 272 381 419 535 453
Requests granted:
By examiner 262 360 408 509 422
By petition   1   1   -   2   3
Requests denied   9  20  11  24  28

Requests known to have related litigation		  52 109 138 176 229

Filings by discipline, total		 272 392 441 524 511
Chemical  87 124 130 138 118
Electrical  78 118 156 188 228
Mechanical 107 150 155 198 165

Notes:

1: Past years’ data have been revised from prior year reports. (back to text)
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