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[CITE: 35USC318]

 
                            TITLE 35--PATENTS
 
            PART III--PATENTS AND PROTECTION OF PATENT RIGHTS
 
       CHAPTER 31--OPTIONAL INTER PARTES REEXAMINATION PROCEDURES
 
Sec. 318. Stay of litigation

    Once an order for inter partes reexamination of a patent has been 
issued under section 313, the patent owner may obtain a stay of any 
pending litigation which involves an issue of patentability of any 
claims of the patent which are the subject of the inter partes 
reexamination order, unless the court before which such litigation is 
pending determines that a stay would not serve the interests of justice.

(Added Pub. L. 106-113, div. B, Sec. 1000(a)(9) [title IV, 
Sec. 4604(a)], Nov. 29, 1999, 113 Stat. 1536, 1501A-570.)
