The USPTO has a new search engine for finding decisions of the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences. (Link). As far as I know, none of the 308 decisions filed in 2006 are precedential. Rather, it seems the last precedential decision was Ex parte Lundgren from 2005. (Decision).
Traditionally, the vast majority of BPAI decisions involved underlying applications that remained secret. With the advent of publication of applications, the BPAI has become a more public body and continues to move toward the goal of providing sound decisions that both adjudicate the particular issues in question and provide further guidance to other applicants and examiners.
For someone thinking of starting a new blog, I would suggest a BPAI blog in the mold of John Welch’s excellent TTABlog.
