The advice to practitioners faced with marginally relevant prior art has long been "when in doubt, cite it." There was a small cost for the applicant (or practitioner) to cite such art by filing an ...
Under U.S. patent law, while there is no duty to perform a search of relevant art, inventors and those associated with filing or prosecuting patent applications as defined in 37 C.F.R. § 1.56 have a ...
“The agency’s decision to mandate use of Form PTO/SB/133 for PTA statements follows a sampling of PTA statements submitted independent of the official form, which revealed a portion of statements that ...
When you file your patent application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, your application (eventually) is reviewed by a patent examiner. Among other things, the patent examiner will compare ...
Maintaining transparency and candor with the USPTO is paramount. Failure to do so can have serious consequences, including a finding of inequitable conduct. Inequitable conduct is a form of fraud ...
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