No more Director-ordered patent re-examinations?

In a comment to a post at patently-o, The Gooch writes on the subject of Director-ordered re-examinations:

The Director hasn't initiated a reexaminaton in 4 or 5 years, the PTO dropped that practice when the CRU was established.

Since the ill-fated Director-ordered re-exam of the Eolas patent, IPBiz has not heard much of Director-ordered re-exams.
Looking at the numbers, it would appear that there weren't any between December 2007 and June 2009.

See


Does the Eolas re-exam result make it harder for Microsoft in court?

http://ipbiz.blogspot.com/2005/09/eolas-us-5838906-to-survive-re.html

Ex Parte Reexamination Filing Data - December 31, 2007

Ex Parte Reexamination Filing Data - June 30, 2009

REEXAMINING REEXAMINATIONS: A FRESH LOOK AT
THE EX PARTE AND INTER PARTES MECHANISMS
FOR REVIEWING ISSUED PATENTS