GroundRules
37 CFR 1.995: Third party requester's participation rights preserved in merged proceeding.
Where this section sits in the code
- Title 37—Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights
- CHAPTER I—UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
- SUBCHAPTER A—GENERAL
- PART 1—RULES OF PRACTICE IN PATENT CASES
- Subpart H—Inter Partes Reexamination of Patents That Issued From an Original Application Filed in the United States on or After November 29, 1999
When a third party requester is involved in one or more proceedings, including an inter partes reexamination proceeding, the merger of such proceedings will be accomplished so as to preserve the third party requester's right to participate to the extent specifically provided for in these regulations. In merged proceedings involving different requesters, any paper filed by one party in the merged proceeding shall be served on all other parties of the merged proceeding.
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