{"id":172,"date":"2015-03-26T12:28:34","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T16:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=172"},"modified":"2015-03-29T16:47:09","modified_gmt":"2015-03-29T20:47:09","slug":"no-challenge-to-ptos-revival-of-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=172","title":{"rendered":"No Challenge Possible to PTO&#8217;s Revival of Application"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <em>Exela Pharma Sciences, LLC v. Lee<\/em>, [2013-1206] (March 26, 2015) the Federal Circuit affirmed the dismissal of Exela\u2019s challenge to the revival of SCR Pharmatop patent application that resulted in the issuance of U.S. Patent No. 6,992,218. It was undisputed that SCR Pharmatop failed to properly enter the U.S. National Phase by the 30 month deadline. SCR Pharmatop filed a petition to revive the application, stating that the delay was \u201cunintentional,\u201d using the form provided by the PTO for revival requests. The PTO granted the petition on April 25, 2003, and the application was duly examined, resulting in the \u2019218 patent. After being sued on the patent, Exela filed a petition in the PTO, under the APA and 37 C.F.R. \u00a7\u00a71.181, 1.182, and 1.183, challenging the PTO\u2019s revival of SCR Pharmatop\u2019s application, arguing that \u201cunintentional\u201d delay was not an available ground for revival of a U.S. patent application claiming priority under the PCT-implementing statute as then in effect.\u00a0 The PTO declined to consider Exela\u2019s petition, stating that no statute or regulation authorizes third party challenge to a PTO ruling concerning revival of a patent application.\u00a0 Exela brought an action in district court to review this determination, but it was\u00a0dismissed the action as untimely.\u00a0 The Federal Circuit affirmed the dismissal, but on the grounds that \u201cPTO revival actions are not subject to third party challenge under the APA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This decision in effect completely insulates improper and even illegal action by the USPTO, not only can a third party not challenge the action in the Patent Office, but in view of the Federal Circuit\u2019s decision in <em>Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty <\/em><em>Ltd. v. International Game Technology<\/em>, 543 F.3d 657 (Fed. Cir. 2008), the party cannot raise it as a defense in an infringement action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Exela Pharma Sciences, LLC v. Lee, [2013-1206] (March 26, 2015) the Federal Circuit affirmed the dismissal of Exela\u2019s challenge to the revival of SCR Pharmatop patent application that resulted in the issuance of U.S. Patent No. 6,992,218. It was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/?p=172\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":175,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions\/175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/patents.harnessip.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}