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Category: Patent Office Rules & Procedures
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Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Patent Offices – June 29 Update By Donald Zuhn –- In a notice posted on its website earlier today, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that it was further extending the time to pay certain required fees, but only for certain types of entities. As with the initial extensions…
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By Donald Zuhn — Last week, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Andrei Iancu sent a letter to the Chairmen and Ranking Members of the Senate and House Committees on the Judiciary, Senate Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, and House Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet, responding to an April 14, 2020 request to…
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Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Patent Offices – June 14 Update By Donald Zuhn — In a notice posted on its website on Thursday, June 11, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that it was extending the time period for petitioning for certain rights of priority or benefit, as well as waiving the corresponding…
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By Donald Zuhn — On March 11, World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom declared that the COVID-19 outbreak "can be characterized as a pandemic." At the time of the announcement, the WHO noted that there were 118,000 cases reported globally; in its situation report for June 10, the WHO indicates that to date there have…
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By Donald Zuhn –- USPTO and JPO Issue Joint Message Yesterday, Director Andrei Iancu of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and Commissioner Akira Matsunaga of the Japan Patent Office issued a joint message to express the Offices' "most heartfelt sympathies to the victims of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and their families," and "hope that everyone…
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Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Patent Offices and Federal Courts – May 27 UPDATE By Donald Zuhn –- In a notice posted on its website earlier today, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that it was further extending the time to file certain patent-related documents and to pay certain required fees, but only for…
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By Donald Zuhn — Earlier this month, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that it would be implementing a COVID-19 Prioritized Examination Pilot Program, in which applicants that qualify for small or micro entity status will be allowed to request prioritized examination without paying the fees typically associated with such prioritized examination. Under the…
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By Donald Zuhn –- Yesterday, in Idorsia Pharmaceuticals, Ltd. v. Iancu, the Federal Circuit affirmed a decision by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia granting summary judgment in favor of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, finding that the District Court had correctly concluded that the Office properly calculated the Patent…
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Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Patent Offices and Federal Courts — April 30 UPDATE By Donald Zuhn –- In a notice posted on its website on Tuesday, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that it was further extending the time to file certain patent-related documents and to pay certain required fees. As with the…
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By Michael Borella — In a post-truth world, it is more tempting than ever to evaluate data based on gut instinct, intuition, and anecdotal evidence. It is thus refreshing when results of a robust statistical analysis are published, even if the response to the ultimate outcome is, "Yeah, we knew that." Case in point, patent…
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