In United States patent law, a reexamination is a process whereby a third party or inventor can have a patent reexamined by a patent examiner to verify that the subject matter it claims is patentable. To have a patent reexamined, an interested party must submit prior art that raises a `substantial new question of patentability`. The Leahy-Smith ..... Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reexamination