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Category: Patent Office Rules & Procedures
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By Donald Zuhn — In December, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office invited stakeholders to submit patent quality-related topics that they believe should be the subject of a case study as part of a new Enhanced Patent Quality Initiative pilot program (see "USPTO Seeks Topics for Quality Case Study Pilot Program"). The Office noted that…
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By Donald Zuhn — USPTO Seeks Sample Applications for eMod Project The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office distributed a Patents Alert USPTO News e-mail last week requesting that stakeholders provide .docx sample applications for testing and validating text submissions as part of the USPTO eMod Patent Center Project. The USPTO eMod (eCommerce Modernization) Patent Center…
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By Donald Zuhn — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office recently released its Performance and Accountability Report for Fiscal Year (FY) 2015. In describing the USPTO's strategic and performance-planning framework, the 2015 report begins by reminding readers that the Office issued a new strategic plan in 2014, the 2014-2018 Strategic Plan. The report indicates that…
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By Donald Zuhn — Last month, in Pfizer, Inc. v. Lee, the Federal Circuit determined that the District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia did not err in granting summary judgment in favor of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on the issue of whether the USPTO properly calculated the Patent Term Adjustment for…
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By Donald Zuhn –- For the second time in a little more than a month, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has experienced an unexpected closing. Last month, the closing resulted from a major power outage at USPTO headquarters in Alexandria, VA that significantly damaged the Office's electronic systems and required the shutdown of its…
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By Kevin E. Noonan, Michael Borella & Donald Zuhn — Earlier today, we presented a live webinar on the "Top Patent Law Stories of 2015." The webinar covered seven of the twenty stories that made it onto Patent Docs ninth annual list of top patent stories. Posts on our top twenty stories can be found…
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By Donald Zuhn — After reflecting upon the events of the past twelve months, Patent Docs presents its ninth annual list of top patent stories. For 2015, we identified twenty stories that were covered on Patent Docs last year that we believe had (or are likely to have) the greatest impact on patent practitioners and…
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By Donald Zuhn — After reflecting upon the events of the past twelve months, Patent Docs presents its ninth annual list of top patent stories. For 2015, we identified twenty stories that were covered on Patent Docs last year that we believe had (or are likely to have) the greatest impact on patent practitioners and…
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By Donald Zuhn — After reflecting upon the events of the past twelve months, Patent Docs presents its ninth annual list of top patent stories. For 2015, we identified twenty stories that were covered on Patent Docs last year that we believe had (or are likely to have) a significant impact on patent practitioners and…
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By Donald Zuhn — Although the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has not yet made a formal announcement on the USPTO Systems Status and Availability webpage or the Office's Facebook and Twitter accounts, it appears that the Office has now restored access to the EFS-Web and Private Patent Application Information Retrieval (PAIR) system. Patent Docs…
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