Dan Ravicher
Dan Ravicher
Daniel "Dan" Ravicher serves as Executive Director of the Public Patent Foundation...
allowed barred debate gets microsoft number unfair unlimited
They want a one-sided debate where we weren't allowed to participate. Microsoft gets an unlimited number of arguments, and we're barred from participating, so it's a pretty unfair process.
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.