From April 21st to 24th, in order to facilitate all parties involved in patent reexamination invalidation cases, help to ascertain the facts of the case, shorten the time for handling cases, and promote further communication and exchanges between the examiners of the Patent Reexamination Board and the right holders and enterprises, 7 examiners of the Patent Reexamination Board of the State Intellectual Property Office came to our province to hold court hearings on 5 patent invalidation cases and 2 patent reexamination cases submitted by enterprises and citizens in our province. A decision will be made at a later date after the parties to the case have been fully heard and their arguments and evidence has been cross-examined.
After the end of the circuit oral examination, the examiner of the Patent Reexamination Board will go to the enterprises in the medical industry of our province to conduct a survey of the “five help and one” service enterprises, and hold a symposium to understand the difficulties and needs encountered by enterprises in the invalidation of patent applications and reexaminations, listen to the opinions and suggestions of enterprises on patent applications, patent reexamination and patent invalidation procedures, and solve the patent protection problems encountered by enterprises and patentees.
(Source: Zhejiang Provincial Department of Science and Technology Author: Department of Patent Protection)