Regulations last checked for updates: May 18, 2024

Title 37 - Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights last revised: May 03, 2024
§ 1.902 - Processing of prior art citations during an inter partes reexamination proceeding.

Citations by the patent owner in accordance with § 1.933 and by an inter partes reexamination third party requester under § 1.915 or § 1.948 will be entered in the inter partes reexamination file. The entry in the patent file of other citations submitted after the date of an order for reexamination pursuant to § 1.931 by persons other than the patent owner, or the third party requester under either § 1.913 or § 1.948, will be delayed until the inter partes reexamination proceeding has been concluded by the issuance and publication of a reexamination certificate. See § 1.502 for processing of prior art citations in patent and reexamination files during an ex parte reexamination proceeding filed under § 1.510.

[72 FR 18906, Apr. 16, 2007]
authority: 35 U.S.C. 2(b)(2), unless otherwise noted
source: 24 FR 10332, Dec. 22, 1959, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 37 CFR 1.902