Legal Opinion
Sigram Schindler Beteiligungsgesellschaft MBH v. Kappos
District Court, E.D. Virginia
Decided December 18, 2009No. 1:09cv935PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION
T.S. ELLIS, III, District Judge.
In this declaratory judgment action, plaintiff (“SSBG”), a patent owner in the midst of an ex parte reexamination appeal to the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (“BPAI”), challenges a Patent and Trademark Office (“PTO”) regulation — 37 C.F.R. § 1.303 — as being “in excess of [its] statutory jurisdiction, authority, or limitations, or short of statutory right.” 1 According to plaintiff, although 35 U.S.C. §§ 141 and 306 allow a patent owner aggrieved by an adverse BPAI reexamination decision the option of appealing to the Court of…
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