Performance and Accountability Report Fiscal Year 2009
Other Accompanying Information

TABLE 14: SUMMARY OF CONTESTED PATENT CASES

TABLE 14: SUMMARY OF CONTESTED PATENT CASES
*(Within the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, as of September 30, 2009)*
Item	Total
Ex parte cases
Appeals
Cases Pending as of 9/30/08	3,956
Cases Filed During FY 2009	15,483
Disposals during FY 2009, total
Decided, total
Affirmed	3,574
Affirmed-in-Part	961
Reversed	1,732
Dismissed/Withdrawn	131
Remanded	464
Cases pending as of 9/30/09	12,577
Rehearings
Cases pending as of 9/30/09	32
Inter partes cases
Cases pending as of 9/30/08	52
Cases declared or reinstituted during FY 2009	55
Inter partes cases, FY 2009 total	107
Cases terminated during FY 2009	63
Cases pending as of 9/30/09	44

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