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- USPTO Announces That It Has Turned the Corner on Unexamined Application Backlog
- Reasons for the PTAB’s Priority Determination in Broad’s Favor (Perhaps)
- Mexico Publishes Amendments to Intellectual Property Law
- PTAB (Again) Awards Priority of Invention to Broad in Interference No. 106,115
- Argentina Repeals Pharmaceutical Patent Examination Guidelines
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Category: Patent Office Rules & Procedures
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By Kevin E. Noonan — John Doll, Commissioner for Patents of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, gave a luncheon seminar today concerning the state of the USPTO, hosted by the Boston office of Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Preston Gates Ellis LLP. As we’ve said before, Commissioner Doll (at right) is the happy face…
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By Christopher P. Singer — Last month, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that it had updated the training materials to be used by examiners in the examination of patent applications for compliance with the written description requirement of 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph. The revised training materials supersede and replace…
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By Christopher P. Singer — Last month, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that it had updated the training materials to be used by examiners in the examination of patent applications for compliance with the written description requirement of 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph. The revised training materials supersede and replace…
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By Donald Zuhn — Last month, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that it had updated the training materials to be used by examiners in the examination of patent applications for compliance with the written description requirement of 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph. The revised training materials supersede and replace the…
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By Kevin E. Noonan — The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office filed a Notice of Appeal today with the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, challenging the decision of Judge William Cacheris of the Eastern District of Virginia permanently enjoining the continuation and claims rules as being outside the scope of their…
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An Analysis of the New Written Description Training Materials – DNA Hybridization & Percent Identity
By Donald Zuhn — Last month, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that it had updated the training materials to be used by examiners in the examination of patent applications for compliance with the written description requirement of 35 U.S.C. § 112, first paragraph. The revised training materials supersede and replace the…
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By Christopher P. Singer — According to an April 28, 2008 press release, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the European Patent Office (EPO) will implement a one-year long pilot Patent Prosecution Highway (PPH) program starting in September 2008. Similar pilot programs with other countries have demonstrated the potential of the…
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By Donald Zuhn — Last fall, we reported on a memorandum of understanding that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), European Patent Office (EPO), and Japan Patent Office (JPO) had reached during the 25th Annual Trilateral Conference. One aspect of this agreement concerned a Common Application Format (CAF), which would allow applicants…
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By Christopher P. Singer — The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) recently published a letter in opposition to the Federal Register Notice outlining proposed rule changes regarding biological deposits (see "Proposed Rule Change to Timing of Filing a Biological Deposit"). In particular, in its letter, signed by President Steven W. Miller, the IPO…
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By Donald Zuhn — Last August, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published a notice of proposed rule making entitled "Examination of Patent Applications That Include Claims Containing Alternative Language" (sometimes referred to as the Markush rules). The Office’s proposed rule making would require each claim in an application to be limited to…
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