Dan Ravicher
Dan Ravicher
Daniel "Dan" Ravicher serves as Executive Director of the Public Patent Foundation...
cases court decision effect exact found indeed later looked office patent supporting
The patent office's decision has no preclusive effect on a court, and there are indeed cases where the patent office made a decision in a re-examination supporting a patent and a court later looked at the same exact issue, disagreed with the PTO, and found the patent invalid.