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USPTO and SIPO Announce Launch of Landmark Patent Prosecution Highway Pilots
Pilots will reduce patent backlogs and increase examination efficiency
Pilots will reduce patent backlogs and increase examination efficiency
USPTO and the Icelandic Patent Office to Partner on Patent Prosecution Highway Pilot
New pilot project will promote efficiency and higher quality
New pilot project will promote efficiency and higher quality
USPTO Seeking Comments on Future Locations for Satellite Offices
Detroit Office Planned for Second Half of 2012; Agency Seeks Comments on Additional Locations
Detroit Office Planned for Second Half of 2012; Agency Seeks Comments on Additional Locations
Exercising Ingenuity: A New Exhibit at the National Inventors Hall of Fame
Highlighting Historic Advances, Current Trends, and Future Technologies for a Healthier Body and Mind
Highlighting Historic Advances, Current Trends, and Future Technologies for a Healthier Body and Mind
US Congress passes patent reform bill
The US Senate today passed a version of the patent reform bill that had been previously passed by the US House of Representatives. The bill now goes to the White House where President Obama is expected to sign the bill, thereby enacting it into law. The bill, when enacted, will bring US patent law more […]
Changes in Requirements for Specimens and for Affidavits or Declarations of Continued Use or Excusable Nonuse in Trademark Cases
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) is extending until September 23, 2011, the period for public comment on the proposal to revise the Trademark Rules of Practice and the Rules of Practice for Filings Pursuant to the Madrid Protocol to permit the USPTO to require: any information, exhibits, and affidavits or declarations deemed […]
USPTO Names Iowa Library to Support Intellectual Property Information Needs of Inventors and Entrepreneurs
WASHINGTON – The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) today announced the designation of Iowa’s Davenport Public Library as a Patent and Trademark Resource Center (PTRC). As the 81st library in the nationwide network, Davenport marks Iowa’s return to the PTRC program and serves as the first center geared away from the “paper depository” […]
Myriad CAFC Panel Decision
A panel of the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (CAFC) rendered a decision today, in the Myriad case, regarding patent eligibility of “isolated” DNA molecules. See Association for Molecular Pathology v. PTO, posted at http://www.cafc.uscourts.gov/images/stories/opinions-orders/10-1406.pdf. The CAFC panel reversed the District court’s decision that had held Myraid’s claims to “isolated” DNA patent ineligible. In […]
The USPTO has now announced PPH update
The USPTO has now announced the new requirements for claim correspondence and timing issues for PPH status under the MOTTAINAI agreement, inferred from the USPTO’s 7/1/2011 announcent at: http://www.uspto.gov/news/pr/2011/11-43.jsp. I quote below these USPTO requirements from the agreement with CIPO. However, the USPTO requirements appear to be identical for all participating Offices: All claims on […]
Save the Date: European Patent Reform Program
Understanding U.S. Patent Reform and What It Means to Your Business and Practice: First-Inventor-to-File (Finally!) and So Much More Yes, it is true. Last week the House of Representatives followed the lead of the Senate and passed U.S. patent reform adopting a first-inventor-to-file system in the United States. During the past few years of legislative […]