What is Supplemental Examination? Supplemental examination (SE) gives patent owners a proactive tool to have the USPTO "consider, reconsider, or correct information" that the patent owner believes is "relevant to the patent." 35 U.S.C. § 257(a). The information that may be submitted with a supplemental examination request is not limited and includes any and all information that could be relevant to an allegation of inequitable conduct or unclean hands. The benefit of supplemental examination is that any information "considered, reconsidered, or corrected during a supplemental examination of the patent" cannot be the basis for a holding of unenforceability. 35 U.S.C. § 257(c)(1). In other