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Category: Patent Office Rules & Procedures
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By Kevin E. Noonan — Rick Weiss gets it when it comes to the value of patents. "Patents assure an inventor a period of time, generally 20 years, to exclude others from using the invention, in return for a full explication of that invention by the patent holder," he says. "The assurance that competitors…
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By Christopher P. Singer — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office sent out a series of e-Commerce Alerts on February 10, 2009, announcing that the existing pilot e-Office Action program will be made permanent and available as an option to all applicants beginning this March. The USPTO has been maintaining the current pilot e-Office…
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By Donald Zuhn — Last month, in a notice published in the Federal Register, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that it would be holding a roundtable discussion regarding deferred examination on February 12th (see "USPTO Schedules Roundtable Discussion on Deferred Examination"). Today, the Patent Office provided additional details regarding the roundtable on…
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By Donald Zuhn — Shortly before leaving the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, former Director Jon Dudas was served with three last complaints from patentees seeking additional Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) for their patents. The three complaints bring the number of 35 U.S.C. § 154(b)(4)(A) actions to 14, involving 15 patentees and 21 separate…
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By Donald Zuhn — Last fall, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that it was seeking up to a thousand registered practitioners to help with a pilot test of the Office's new online Continuing Education for Practitioners (CEP) system (see "Patent Office Seeking Volunteers to Test Continuing Education System"). Yesterday, the Patent Office…
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By Christopher P. Singer — The list of Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) participants continues to grow. On Friday, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published a press release announcing a new pilot PPH program with the Intellectual Property Office of Singapore (IPOS) that will begin on Monday, February 2, 2009. As with other PPH…
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By Donald Zuhn — Earlier this month, Science Progress, a semi-annual journal published by the Center for American Progress, issued a series of reports on the U.S. patent system. The series, outlined in an article entitled: "Patent Reform 101," consists of four reports: • "Tackling the Challenge of Patent Reform: Recommendations for the Obama…
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By Christopher P. Singer — In a January 28, 2008 press release, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that the existing pilot Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) program with the Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO) will expire in favor of a permanent PPH which begins on January 29, 2009. Applicants who participate in the…
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By Christopher P. Singer — In a Federal Register pre-publication Notice scheduled to be published officially in tomorrow's Federal Register, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that it plans to hold a roundtable discussion regarding deferred examination options (UPDATE: the notice has now been published in the Federal Register at 74 Fed. Reg.…
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By Christopher P. Singer — Since the launch of EFS-Web in the fall of 2006, applicants have had the option of e-filing sequence listings as text (.txt) files only, rather than filing sequence listings in both paper and computer readable copies. Several biotech prosecutors in our office have had recent discussion and debate about…
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