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- Title: Changes To Practice for Continued Examination Filings, Patent Applications Containing Patentably Indistinct Claims (US Patent and Trademark Office Regulation) (PTO) (2018 Edition)
- Author : The Law Library
- Release Date : January 10, 2018
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 1081 KB
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The Law Library presents the complete text of the Changes To Practice for Continued Examination Filings, Patent Applications Containing Patentably Indistinct Claims (US Patent and Trademark Office Regulation) (PTO) (2018 Edition).
Updated as of May 29, 2018
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (Office) is revising the rules of practice in patent cases relating to continuing applications and requests for continued examination practices, and for the examination of claims in patent applications. The Office is revising the rules of practice to require that any third or subsequent continuing application that is a continuation application or a continuation-in-part application, and any second or subsequent request for continued examination in an application family, be filed to obtain consideration of an amendment, argument, or evidence, and be supported by a showing as to why the amendment, argument, or evidence sought to be entered could not have been previously submitted. The Office is also revising the rules of practice to provide that an applicant must provide an examination support document that covers all of the claims in an application if the application contains more than five independent claims or more than twenty-five total claims. The Office is also revising the rules of practice with respect to multiple applications that have the same claimed filing or priority date, substantial overlapping disclosure, a common inventor, and common ownership. These changes will allow the Office to conduct a better and more thorough and reliable examination of patent applications.
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- The complete text of the Changes To Practice for Continued Examination Filings, Patent Applications Containing Patentably Indistinct Claims (US Patent and Trademark Office Regulation) (PTO) (2018 Edition)
- A dynamic table of content linking to each section
- A table of contents in introduction presenting a general overview of the structure