{"id":4897,"date":"2012-02-25T14:33:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T20:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=4897"},"modified":"2012-02-25T14:43:57","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T20:43:57","slug":"reversal-rate-of-uspto-decisions-by-the-federal-circuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/?p=4897","title":{"rendered":"Reversal Rate of USPTO Decisions by the Federal Circuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/image0011.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4906\" title=\"image0011\" src=\"http:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/image0011.gif\" alt=\"image0011\" width=\"920\" height=\"669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/image0011.gif 920w, https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/image0011-300x218.gif 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 920px) 100vw, 920px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is too bad that more applicants don&#8217;t appeal decisions by the BPAI and TTAB. Since 1997, the judges of the Federal Circuit have decided, on average, 50 such appeals per year. Roughly 11.8 percent of the appeals from the USPTO (i.e., BPAI and TTAB) that were decided by the Federal Circuit have been reversed. The above chart shows the yearly statistics. (Click on the chart for a higher quality image.)\u00a0 As you can see, in recent years the reversal rate by the Federal Circuit has been above the historical average.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It seems logical that\u00a0the\u00a0USPTO&#8217;s efforts to to reduce\u00a0its backlog of patent appeals will result in\u00a0more appeals being made to the Federal Circuit.\u00a0 Whether such an increase in workload for the Federal Circuit will drive a need\u00a0for an additional seat on the\u00a0bench remains to be seen.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The statistics are available on the Federal Circuit web site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is too bad that more applicants don&#8217;t appeal decisions by the BPAI and TTAB. Since 1997, the judges of the Federal Circuit have decided, on average, 50 such appeals per year. Roughly 11.8 percent of the appeals from the USPTO (i.e., BPAI and TTAB) that were decided by the Federal Circuit have been reversed. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4897"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4897\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4913,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4897\/revisions\/4913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.717madisonplace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}