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Category: Patent Office Rules & Procedures
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By Donald Zuhn — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced this morning that it has now restored its fax line and is once again able to receive faxed documents. The announcement was made on the Office's Facebook and Twitter accounts. Despite the restoration of its fax line, the Office will still consider each day…
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By Donald Zuhn — On Tuesday, December 22, a major power outage at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office headquarters in Alexandria, VA significantly damaged the Office's electronic systems and required the shutdown of the Office's online and IT systems. As a result, the Office's filing, searching, and payment systems, systems used by examiners across…
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By Donald Zuhn — In a notice published in the Federal Register earlier today (80 Fed. Reg. 79277), the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office invites 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. In the…
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By Donald Zuhn — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a notice of proposed rulemaking in the Federal Register earlier today (80 Fed. Reg. 78155) to comply with Public Law 113-227, which was enacted by Congress on December 16, 2014, and which establishes the USPTO's Law School Clinic Certification Program. The legislation, which requires…
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By Donald Zuhn — USPTO and INPI Establish PPH Pilot Program On November 23, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and Brazil's National Institute for Industrial Property (INPI) entered into a Memorandum of Understanding to establish a Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) pilot program between the two offices. The two-year pilot program will begin on January…
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By Donald Zuhn –- The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) announced today that it had launched Dossier Access, the first of a set of business services to be developed as part of the Global Dossier Initiative. The Global Dossier Initiative is a collaborative project of the IP5 Offices — the European Patent Office (EPO),…
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By Michael Borella — On July 30, 2015, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office updated its subject matter eligibility guidance ("July Update"). In the July Update, the Office provided recommendations and resources for examiners in addition to those in the Office's 2014 Interim Guidance on Subject Matter Eligibility. In particular, the Office provided procedural and…
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By Michael Borella — On July 30, 2015, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office updated its subject matter eligibility guidance ("July Update"). The update provided recommendations and resources for examiners in addition to those in the Office's 2014 Interim Guidance on Subject Matter Eligibility. In particular, the Office provided procedural and substantive guidelines regarding the…
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By Donald Zuhn — In a notice published earlier this week in the Federal Register (80 Fed. Reg. 65649), the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a final rule revising the rules of practice to permit applicants to authorize the USPTO to give certain foreign IP offices access to all or part of the file…
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By Donald Zuhn –- In a Federal Register notice published earlier this month (80 Fed. Reg. 60367), the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced a change in practice for the correction of errors in foreign priority claims. Under the change in practice, applicants wishing to correct errors in a foreign priority claim after the time…
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