Patent Bar MPEP Q & A Podcast
By Lisa Parmley, USPTO Patent Practitioner #51006
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Patent Bar Review
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MPEP Q & A 300: Difference between sequence listing requirements filed before or after July 1, 2022
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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MPEP Q & A 299: What should a motion to exclude evidence include?
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Apr 09, 2024 |
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MPEP Q & A 298: Submission requirements for “Sequence Listing XML”
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Mar 26, 2024 |
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MPEP Q & A 297: List two situations where a certificate of correction may not be appropriate.
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Mar 12, 2024 |
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MPEP Q & A 296: List the criteria for “Large Tables”
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Feb 27, 2024 |
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MPEP Q & A 295: Which of the new trial proceedings can the patent owner file a preliminary response for?
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Feb 13, 2024 |
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MPEP Q & A 294: What are the two aspects every requirement to restrict has?
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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MPEP Q & A 293: Who conducts derivation proceedings, inter partes reviews, and post-grant reviews?
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Jan 16, 2024 |
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MPEP Q & A 292: Two changes the Hague Agreement Article 16(1) provides
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Jan 02, 2024 |
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MPEP Q & A 291: When did the derivation rules go into effect?
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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MPEP Q & A 290: Use of metric system of measurements in patent applications
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Dec 05, 2023 |
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MPEP Q & A 289: List two situations that are not considered new grounds of rejection?
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Nov 21, 2023 |
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MPEP Q & A 288: How may an examiner treat an amendment not fully responsive to a non-final Office action?
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Nov 07, 2023 |
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MPEP Q & A 287: When inconsistent information is given for an application data sheet, what submission will govern control?
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Oct 24, 2023 |
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MPEP Q & A 286: What are the factual inquiries of obviousness enunciated by the Court?
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Oct 10, 2023 |
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MPEP Q & A 285: What don’t the provisions of 37 CFR 1.114 apply to?
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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MPEP Q & A 284: When will a provisional application be given a filing date?
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Sep 12, 2023 |
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MPEP Q & A 283: List of special cases
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Aug 29, 2023 |
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MPEP Q & A 282: Continued prosecution application practice for utility and plant applications
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Aug 15, 2023 |
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MPEP Q & A 281: Time for reply to final rejection
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Aug 01, 2023 |
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MPEP Q & A 280: When does the revocation of a filing receipt license become effective?
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Jul 18, 2023 |
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MPEP Q & A 279: Methods of paying a maintenance fee and necessary surcharges
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Jul 04, 2023 |
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MPEP Q & A 278: Claiming the benefit of a provisional application
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Jun 20, 2023 |
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MPEP Q & A 277: Exceptions to extensions of time
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Jun 06, 2023 |
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MPEP Q & A 276: Examples of exemplary rationales of a prima facie case of obviousness
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May 23, 2023 |
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MPEP Q & A 275: Receipt of drawing after the filing date
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May 09, 2023 |
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MPEP Q & A 274: Inspection of patent files by the public
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Apr 25, 2023 |
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MPEP Q & A 273: Can a request for ex parte reexamination filed on or after January 16, 2018 be filed with a reduced filing fee?
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Apr 11, 2023 |
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MPEP Q & A 272: Limitation that the courts have found not to be enough to qualify as “significantly more” when recited in a claim with a judicial exception.
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Mar 28, 2023 |
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MPEP Q & A 271: What are three pieces of information each patent listed in the Official Gazette may give?
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Mar 14, 2023 |
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MPEP Q & A 270: Once an appellant has filed a notice of appeal, what situations may that appellant request that prosecution be reopened for?
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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MPEP Q & A 269: Two laboratory techniques the courts have recognized as well-understood, routine, conventional activities in the life science arts
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Feb 14, 2023 |
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MPEP Q & A 268: What should the examiner do?
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Jan 31, 2023 |
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MPEP Q & A 267: What are the four purposes 35 U.S.C. 101 has been interpreted as imposing?
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Jan 17, 2023 |
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MPEP Q & A 266: Name one advantage a CPA has compared to a continuation or divisional application
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Jan 03, 2023 |
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MPEP Q & A 265: What is the second part of the Alice/Mayo test often referred to as?
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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MPEP Q & A 264: How do examiners evaluate integration into a practical application?
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Dec 06, 2022 |
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MPEP Q & A 263: How is the markedly different characteristics analysis performed?
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Nov 22, 2022 |
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MPEP Q & A 262: Give an example of a claim that does not recite mental processes because it cannot be practically performed in the human mind.
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Nov 08, 2022 |
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MPEP Q & A 261: What is meant by a fundamental economic practice or principle?
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Oct 25, 2022 |
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MPEP Q & A 257: Can an inventor apply for a patent jointly even when they did not physically work together or at the same time?
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Aug 30, 2022 |
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MPEP Q & A 256: What type of applications and proceedings may submit drawings that are not black and white line drawings via EFS-Web?
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Aug 16, 2022 |
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MPEP Q & A 255: When do members of a Markush group share a ‘single structural similarity’?
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Aug 02, 2022 |
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MPEP Q & A 254: What must a statement under 37 CFR 1.97(e) state?
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Jul 19, 2022 |
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MPEP Q & A 253: What must a claim in dependent form contain?
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Jul 05, 2022 |
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MPEP Q & A 252: When the online fee payment in EFS-Web is unavailable, what types of submissions cannot be filed via EFS-Web?
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Jun 21, 2022 |
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MPEP Q & A 251: Benefits of filing a nonprovisional application claiming the benefit of the filing date of the provisional application under 35 U.S.C. 119(e)
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Jun 07, 2022 |
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MPEP Q & A 250: What are examples of situations where ownership must be established?
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May 24, 2022 |
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MPEP Q & A 249: What happens if a claim for foreign priority is presented after the time period set in 37 CFR 1.55?
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May 10, 2022 |
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MPEP Q & A 248: What are the enumerated groupings of abstract ideas defined as?
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Apr 26, 2022 |
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MPEP Q & A 247: When is a protest considered timely?
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Apr 12, 2022 |
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MPEP Q & A 246: Will the paper application file itself be available to the public for inspection?
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Mar 29, 2022 |
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MPEP Q & A 245: How is the effective filing date of a claimed invention determined?
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Mar 15, 2022 |
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MPEP Q & A 244: How can correspondence filed via the Office electronic filing system be signed?
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Mar 01, 2022 |
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MPEP Q & A 243: Who may sign the substitute statement for a juristic entity?
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Feb 15, 2022 |
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MPEP Q & A 242: When will an international application not need a foreign filing license?
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Feb 01, 2022 |
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MPEP Q & A 241: Paying maintenance fee due prior to the issuance of a reissue patent
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Jan 18, 2022 |
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MPEP Q & A 240: What is an example of a situation that does not define ‘substantial utilities’?
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Jan 04, 2022 |
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MPEP Q & A 239: Can a patent owner avoid double patenting by disclaiming the earlier patent?
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Dec 21, 2021 |
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MPEP Q & A 238: What are examples of laws of nature or natural phenomena?
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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MPEP Q & A 237: What is an example of non-limiting claims not directed to statutory categories?
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Nov 23, 2021 |
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MPEP Q & A 236: Who is the applicant for a patent?
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Nov 09, 2021 |
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MPEP Q & A 235: What is a mathematical relationship?
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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MPEP Q & A 234: How can patent applications be sent to the USPTO?
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Oct 12, 2021 |
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MPEP Q & A 233: List application filing dates for determining whether patent is subject to maintenance fees
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Sep 28, 2021 |
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MPEP Q & A 232: Can social media websites be a source of prior art?
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Sep 14, 2021 |
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MPEP Q & A 231: Types of papers that may be filed and processed electronically
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Aug 31, 2021 |
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MPEP Q & A 230: What is an ‘improper Markush grouping’?
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Aug 17, 2021 |
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MPEP Q & A 229: When are the claims of a new application finally rejected in the first Office action?
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Aug 03, 2021 |
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MPEP Q & A 228: Who is listed on the assignee section of a patent?
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Jul 20, 2021 |
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MPEP Q & A 227: What are the requirements for request for a corrected publication?
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Jul 06, 2021 |
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MPEP Q & A 226: When is a rejection on the ground of lack of utility appropriate?
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Jun 22, 2021 |
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MPEP Q & A 225: What are the reasons why the prior art element should not be considered an equivalent to the invention disclosed in the specification.
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Jun 08, 2021 |
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MPEP Q & A 224: What are the “Appropriate circumstances” to vacate the order granting reexamination?
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May 25, 2021 |
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MPEP Q & A 223: What Size Non-Patent Documents Require Document Size Fees?
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May 11, 2021 |
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MPEP Q & A 222: What are the Three Conditions That Must be Satisfied …?
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Apr 27, 2021 |
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MPEP Q & A 221: What are the Three Types of Patent Documents Available as Prior Art …?
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Apr 13, 2021 |
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MPEP Q & A 220: What are the Section 42.208 paragraph (c) Amendments?
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Mar 30, 2021 |
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MPEP Q & A 219: When may the OPAP object to and require corrected drawings within a set time period?
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Mar 16, 2021 |
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MPEP Q & A 218: What is the issue of correlation about as related to matters of invitro/in vivo?
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Mar 02, 2021 |
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MPEP Q & A 217: What are the Section 42.23 paragraph (b) Amendments?
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Feb 16, 2021 |
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MPEP Q & A 216: Time for Establishing ISR and WO of the International Search Authority
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Feb 02, 2021 |
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MPEP Q & A 215: When Did Amendments to the Rules of Practice for Trials Before PTAB Take Effect?
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Jan 19, 2021 |
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MPEP Q & A 214: What are Sufficient Grounds for Post-Grant Review?
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Jan 05, 2021 |
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MPEP Q & A 213: Can Attorney Arguments Take the Place of Evidence?
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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MPEP Q & A 212: What is the Number of Days Before an Oral Argument for Exchange of Exhibits?
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Dec 08, 2020 |
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MPEP Q & A 211: When May an Abandoned Application be Used as Prior Art?
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Nov 24, 2020 |
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MPEP Q & A 210: What is the Executive Summary of the Supplement ‘Amendments to the Rules of Practice for Trials Before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board?
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Nov 10, 2020 |
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MPEP Q & A 209: Submission of an Oath or Declaration From a Prior Application
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Oct 27, 2020 |
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MPEP Q & A 208: Filing a Petition to Make an Application Special Without a Fee
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Oct 13, 2020 |
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MPEP Q & A 207: When Can a Practitioner Enter a Business Transaction with a Client
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Sep 29, 2020 |
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MPEP Q & A 206: Requirements for an Applicant to Rescind Nonpublication Requests
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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MPEP Q & A 205: Meaning of Claims Limited to Species
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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MPEP Q & A 204: Definition of a National Application
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Aug 18, 2020 |
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MPEP Q & A 203: Rejections of Dependent Claims Not Specifying a Further Limitation
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Aug 04, 2020 |
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MPEP Q & A 202: Components of Examiner’s Answer in an Appeal
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Jul 21, 2020 |
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MPEP Q & A 201: Drawings Essential Elements of Design Patent Applications
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Jul 07, 2020 |
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MPEP Q & A 200: When Drawings Are Not Considered Necessary Under 35 USC 113
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Jun 23, 2020 |
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MPEP Q & A 199: The Difference Between Applicant Information, Correspondence Information, and Application Information
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Jun 09, 2020 |
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MPEP Q & A 198: Items Necessary to Accord the International Filing Date the Date of Receipt of the International Application
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May 26, 2020 |
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MPEP Q & A 197: What Must a Petition for an Unintentionally Delayed Claim be Filed With?
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May 12, 2020 |
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MPEP Q & A 196: Submission of Petition to Withdraw Application from Issue Under 37 CFR 1.313(c)
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Apr 28, 2020 |
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MPEP Q & A 195: Necessary Items for a Petition for Retroactive License
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Apr 14, 2020 |
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MPEP Q & A 194: Stop the Publication of an Application
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Mar 31, 2020 |
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MPEP Q & A 193: Petition to Make Special and Energy Resources
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Mar 17, 2020 |
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MPEP Q & A 192: Overcome Provisional Obviousness Rejection
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Mar 03, 2020 |
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MPEP Q & A 191: Final Rule in the Changes to the Claim Construction Standard
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Feb 18, 2020 |
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MPEP Q & A 190: AIA Proceeding Expenses Under Phillips
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Feb 04, 2020 |
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MPEP Q & A 189: Issuance of NIRC Action in Inter Partes Reexamination Proceeding
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Jan 21, 2020 |
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MPEP Q & A 188: What Should Applicant Initiated Interview Request Form Identify?
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Jan 07, 2020 |
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MPEP Q & A 187: Two Final Rules Dealing with Claim Construction Standard
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Dec 10, 2019 |
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MPEP Q & A 186: Name Types of Patents that May Not Use 37 C.F.R. 1.114
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Nov 26, 2019 |
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MPEP Q & A 185: What Must an Application Filed Under 37 CFR 1.53(d) be Filed Before the Earliest Of?
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Nov 12, 2019 |
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MPEP Q & A 184: What Should a Subject Matter Eligibility Rejection Identify Under Step 2A?
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Oct 29, 2019 |
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MPEP Q & A 183: When Changes to the Claim Construction Standard Apply
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Oct 15, 2019 |
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MPEP Q & A 182: Characteristics of Ex Parte Reexamination
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Oct 01, 2019 |
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MPEP Q & A 181: Summary of Claim Construction Standard
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Sep 17, 2019 |
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MPEP Q & A 180: AIA 35 U.S.C. 102(b)
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Sep 03, 2019 |
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MPEP Q & A 179: What is the 3-Step Test for Recapture?
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Aug 20, 2019 |
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MPEP Q & A 178: What is the Difference Between Derivation and Priority of Invention?
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Aug 06, 2019 |
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MPEP Q & A 177: Revealing Information Relating to the Representation of a Client When the Client has Not Given Informed Consent
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Jul 23, 2019 |
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MPEP Q & A 176: What Does a Petition Under 37 C.F.R. 1.78 Require?
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Jul 09, 2019 |
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MPEP Q & A 175: Concepts Related to Tracking or Organizing Information
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Jun 25, 2019 |
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MPEP Q & A 174: Submission Types that May Not be Filed Via EFS Web.
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Jun 11, 2019 |
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MPEP Q & A 173: What is a Complete Nonprovisional Application Comprised of?
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May 28, 2019 |
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MPEP Q & A 172: Fees that Must be Paid Upon Filing a Request for Prioritized Examination
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May 14, 2019 |
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MPEP Q & A 171: Instances Where Publication or Issue Date is Later Than the Current Date
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Apr 30, 2019 |
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MPEP Q & A 170: Must a Claim be Identified to a Correct Category of Subject Matter?
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Apr 16, 2019 |
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MPEP Q & A 169: Non-Limiting Claims Not Directed to Any of the Statutory Categories.
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Apr 02, 2019 |
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MPEP Q & A 168: Competent Representation to a Client
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Mar 19, 2019 |
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MPEP Q & A 167: When Must Applicants Timely File a Notice of Foreign Filing to Avoid Abandonment of a U.S. Application?
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Mar 05, 2019 |
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MPEP Q & A 166: Further Written Opinion Established by the International Preliminary Examining Authority
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Feb 19, 2019 |
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MPEP Q & A 165: When Patent Owner Fails to File Timely Response to Any Office Action Prior to an Action Closing Prosecution (ACP)
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Feb 05, 2019 |
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MPEP Q & A 164: Computer-Implemented Methods and the Tax Strategy Provision
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Jan 22, 2019 |
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MPEP Q & A 163: What are the Most Common Basis for Filing a Reissue Application?
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Jan 08, 2019 |
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MPEP Q & A 162: When is a 35 U.S.C. 102 Rejection with Multiple References Proper?
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Dec 21, 2018 |
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MPEP Q & A 161: Living Subject Matter and Patent Protection
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Dec 11, 2018 |
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MPEP Q & A 160: Rules for Appellant to Request to Reopen Prosecution
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Nov 27, 2018 |
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MPEP Q & A 159: What are the Two Criteria for Subject Matter Eligibility?
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Nov 13, 2018 |
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MPEP Q & A 158: Can Maintenance Fees be Paid in Cash?
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Oct 30, 2018 |
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MPEP Q & A 157: Ways a Patent May be Corrected or Amended
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Oct 16, 2018 |
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MPEP Q & A 156: What is the Definition of Fundamental Economic Practices?
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Oct 02, 2018 |
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MPEP Q & A 155: Statutes That Grounds for Post-Grant Review May be Raised For
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Sep 18, 2018 |
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MPEP Q & A 154: What Does the Broadest Reasonable Interpretation (BRI) Do?
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Sep 04, 2018 |
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MPEP Q & A 153: When Will a Practitioner be Responsible for Another Practitioner’s Violation of the USPTO Rules of Professional Conduct?
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Aug 21, 2018 |
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MPEP Q & A 152: Information an Attorney of Record May Have to Submit in Reply to an Office Action, Reissue Application, or Reexamination Proceeding
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Aug 07, 2018 |
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MPEP Q & A 151: Situations Where a Practitioner May Withdraw From Representing a Client According to 37 C.F.R. 11.116
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Jul 24, 2018 |
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MPEP Q & A 150: Triggering of On-Sale Bar of Pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102(b)
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Jul 10, 2018 |
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MPEP Q & A 149: Four Categories of Invention Recited in 35 U.S.C. 101
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Jul 03, 2018 |
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MPEP Q & A 148: The Duty of Disclosure in Reexamination Proceedings
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Jun 26, 2018 |
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MPEP Q & A 147: Post-Grant Reviews and Civil Actions
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Jun 19, 2018 |
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MPEP Q & A 146: When Can a Combination as Claimed Show that Inventions are Distinct?
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Jun 12, 2018 |
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MPEP Q & A 145: Methods For Paying a Maintenance Fee
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Jun 05, 2018 |
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MPEP Q & A 144: What Should a Subject Matter Eligibility Rejection Under Step 2 Do?
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May 29, 2018 |
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MPEP Q & A 143: Who Decides Petitions for Derivation and Conducts Any Ensuing Derivation Proceeding?
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May 22, 2018 |
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MPEP Q & A 142: Examples of Evidence Under 37 C.F.R. 1.131(a)
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May 15, 2018 |
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MPEP Q & A 141: Issues That Must be Completed During the Examination Before an Interference May be Called
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May 08, 2018 |
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MPEP Q & A 140: Status Identifiers Expected to Follow the Claim Number in an Amendment to the Claims
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May 01, 2018 |
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MPEP Q & A 139: Fees the Office Might Refund
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Apr 24, 2018 |
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MPEP Q & A 138: When May a Process and Apparatus for its Practice be Shown to be Distinct Inventions?
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Apr 17, 2018 |
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MPEP Q & A 137: Who May a Party Dissatisfied with a Final Decision in a Derivation Proceeding Appeal To?
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Apr 10, 2018 |
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MPEP Q & A 136: What a Reasons Document Should Include
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Apr 03, 2018 |
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MPEP Q & A 135: When May the Prior Art Date of a Reference Under Pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102(e) be the International Filing Date?
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Mar 27, 2018 |
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MPEP Q & A 134: Who is Barred From Filing a Request for Ex Parte Reexamination of a Patent?
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Mar 20, 2018 |
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MPEP Q & A 133: Correspondence That May be Transmitted by Facsimile.
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Mar 13, 2018 |
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MPEP Q & A 132: What are the Three Separate and Distinct Requirements of the First Paragraph of 35 U.S.C. 112?
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Mar 06, 2018 |
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MPEP Q & A 131: What Does an Applicant Who Uses the Patent Cooperation Treaty Gain the Benefit of?
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Feb 27, 2018 |
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MPEP Q & A 130: What is a Covered Business Method Patent According to the AIA?
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Feb 20, 2018 |
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MPEP Q & A 129: How Applicants Can Rebut a Prima Facie Case of Obviousness Based on Overlapping Ranges?
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Feb 13, 2018 |
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MPEP Q & A 128: Individuals Who May Sign the Power of Attorney for Applications Filed On or After September 16, 2012
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Feb 06, 2018 |
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MPEP Q & A 127: What Must a Statement Under 37 CFR 1.97(e) State?
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Jan 30, 2018 |
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MPEP Q & A 126: Time When a Third Party Submission Must be Made
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Jan 23, 2018 |
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MPEP Q & A 125: Reasons Why a Petition Filed Under 35 U.S.C. 321 May be Considered
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Jan 16, 2018 |
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MPEP Q & A 124: Situations Where the Examiner is Not Responsible for Examining the Sufficiency of the Showing
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Jan 09, 2018 |
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MPEP Q & A 123: What Situation May a Certificate of Correction be Used In Order to Correct an Issued Patent as Long as the Filing Was Made Without Deceptive Intent?
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Jan 02, 2018 |
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MPEP Q & A 122: Advantages of Filing a CPA Compared to a Continuation or Divisional Application
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Dec 26, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 121: Times When a Request for Continuing Examination May be Proper
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Dec 19, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 120: What May an Applicant do in Response to a Rejection Based on Failure to Claim Patent-Eligible Subject Matter?
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Dec 12, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 119: When is a Reference Analogous Art to the Claimed Invention?
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Dec 05, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 118: Item an Appellant Must File If He or She Wishes to Reinstate an Appeal After Prosecution is Reopened
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Nov 28, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 117: Items a ‘Corrective Document’ Must Include?
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Nov 21, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 116: Consequence That May Result Where Patent Owner Fails to Make Timely Appeal After the Issuance of a Right of Appeal Notice
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Nov 14, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 115: What is the Order of Arrangement for the Specification?
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Nov 07, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 114: Individuals Who May Grant Written Authority to Status Information
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Oct 31, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 113: List 2 Requirements of the Summary of Abstract
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Oct 24, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 112: What Does 35 U.S.C. 102(a)(2) Provide?
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Oct 17, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 111: What Must Each Information Disclosure Statement Include a Legible Copy Of?
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Oct 10, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 110: What a Petition Filed On or After September 16, 2012 Must be Accompanied By to Correct Inventorship in a Patent
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Oct 03, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 109: How Inter Partes Reexamination Differs From Ex Parte Reexamination
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Sep 26, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 108: Computer Functions Recognized to be Well‐Understood, Routine, and Conventional Functions When They are Claimed in a Merely Generic Manner
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Sep 19, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 107: Times When Explicit Petitions for Foreign Filing Licenses May Be Considered by Applicants
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Sep 12, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 106: Indicia That a Continuing Reissue Application is Being Filed
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Sep 05, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 105: Petition Fee Requirements For Participation in the PPH
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Aug 29, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 104: What Submission of Article 19 Amendments Should Comprise
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Aug 22, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 103: What Grounds for Seeking Inter Partes Review are Limited to Compared with Post-Grant Review
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Aug 15, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 102: Earlier Concluded Examination or Review of Patent
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Aug 08, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 101: Petition for a Derivation Proceeding
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Aug 01, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 100: Activities Used as an Indication of Commercial Exploitation
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Jul 25, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 99: Types of Information Considered Status Information
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Jul 18, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 98: Fees Reduced by 75% for Micro Entities
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Jul 11, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 97: Nonstatutory Double Patenting Rejection Made Under Obviousness Analysis
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Jul 04, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 96: When a Nonpublication Request is Not Appropriate
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Jun 27, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 95: What an Examiner May Do After Considering the Issues on Appeal
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Jun 20, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 94: When a Concurrent Conflict of Interest Exists
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Jun 13, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 93: What is Essential Material
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Jun 06, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 92: Statutory Requirements to be Met Before Certificate of Correction for an Applicant’s Mistake to Issue
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May 30, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 91: Non-Limiting Examples of Types of Characteristics Considered by the Courts to Determine Marked Difference
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May 23, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 90: Conditions an Examiner Should Check for Before Requiring Applicant to Add Claim to Provoke Interference
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May 16, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 89: Concepts the Courts Have Found to be Laws of Nature and Natural Phenomena
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May 09, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 88: What the Patent Prosecution Highway Attempts to Accomplish
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May 02, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 87: Reasons Practitioner Should Act as an Advocate Before a Tribunal
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Apr 25, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 86: Assignment of Patent to Change Address for Maintenance Fee Purposes
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Apr 18, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 85: Board on Deferring Action on a Petition for a Derivation Proceeding
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Apr 11, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 84: Division of Fees Between Practitioners Not in the Same Firm
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Apr 04, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 83: Filing a Petition to Institute a Post-Grant Review
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Mar 28, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 82: Components International Design Applications Designating the U.S. Must Include
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Mar 21, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 81: Items Applicant’s Must Establish Under 35 USC 156
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Mar 14, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 80: Assignments Potentially Utilized as the Oath or Declaration
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Mar 07, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 79: Factors When Determining Sufficient Evidence Concerning Enablement Requirement
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Feb 28, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 78: AIA and Applications Filed Before March 16, 2013
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Feb 21, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 77: Conclusion of an Inter Partes Reexamination Proceeding
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Feb 14, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 76: Filing a Petition for a Covered Business Method Patent Review
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Feb 07, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 75: Duty of Disclosure in Reexamination Proceedings
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Feb 03, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 74: Sources of Information Material to Patentability
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Jan 31, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 73: Contents of an International Application
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Jan 27, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 72: Filing of a Certificate of Correction
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Jan 24, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 71: Bibliographic Data
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Jan 20, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 70: Three Separate and Distinct Requirements of the Specification
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Jan 17, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 69: Submission of a Protest
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Jan 13, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 68: Ways in Which Possession May be Shown
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Jan 10, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 67: First Step of the Recapture Rule
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Jan 06, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 66: Relevance of Long-Felt Need and the Failure of Others
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Jan 03, 2017 |
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MPEP Q & A 65: Underlying Factual Inquiries of Obviousness
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Dec 30, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 64: Strongest Rationale for Combining References
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Dec 27, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 63: Grounds of Refusal for a Notification of Refusal
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Dec 23, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 62: Circumstances Where Applicants May Make Amendments
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Dec 20, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 61: Passing Jurisdiction onto the Board
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Dec 16, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 60: Contents of a Request for Republication
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Dec 13, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 59: Concluding an Ex Parte Reexamination Proceeding
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Dec 09, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 58: Electronic Publications as Printed Publications
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Dec 06, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 57: Government Organizations that Cannot Qualify as Nonprofit Organizations
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Dec 02, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 56: Four Conditions That Establish a Statutory Bar Under Pre-AIA 35 U.S.C. 102(d)
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Nov 29, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 55: Obtaining Permission to File a Patent Application Abroad
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Nov 25, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 54: Who Interferences May be Provoked By
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Nov 22, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 53: Details on AIA 35 U.S.C. 102(a)
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Nov 18, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 52: Due Dates for Paying the Maintenance Fee Without a Surcharge
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Nov 15, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 51: Correspondence Address in Applications Filed Before September 16, 2012
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Nov 11, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 50: What Right of Appeal Notice Sets Forth
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Nov 08, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 49: Correspondence to a Different Address for a Supplemental Examination Proceeding
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Nov 04, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 48: Type of Issues Triggering Rejections
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Nov 01, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 47: Correction of a Typographical Error on a Recorded Cover Sheet
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Oct 28, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 46: Item of Information that Raises a Substantial New Question of Patentability
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Oct 25, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 45: Timing of Demand for International Preliminary Examination
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Oct 21, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 44: Proper Evidentiary Basis for a Rejection Under 35 U.S.C. 171
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Oct 18, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 43: Ways a Patent May be Corrected or Amended
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Oct 14, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 42: Reproduction of Asexually Propagated Plants
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Oct 11, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 41: Withdrawing an Application From Issue After Payment of the Issue Fee
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Oct 07, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 40: Situations Where There May be a Remand For Examiner Action Not For Further Consideration of a Rejection
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Oct 04, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 39: Types of Applications That Will Not be Published
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Sep 30, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 38: Common Types of Linking Claims
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Sep 27, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 37: Non-Structural Generic Placeholders Invoking 35 USC 112(f)
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Sep 23, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 36: Documents a Person Acting in a Representative Capacity May Not Sign
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Sep 20, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 35: Example of What an Oath or Declaration Must Do
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Sep 16, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 34: Item an Applicant May Submit as Objective Evidence That Common Ownership Existed
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Sep 13, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 33: What is a Divisional Application?
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Sep 09, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 32: Circumstance Where Joint Ownership Exists
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Sep 06, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 31: Applicant Action After Invention is Found Obvious
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Sep 02, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 30: Elements of an International Design Application
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Aug 30, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 29: Access to a Pending or Abandoned Application Filed On or After September 16, 2012
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Aug 26, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 28: Filing Fees Reduced by 50% for Small Entities
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Aug 23, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 27: Difference Between AIA 35 USC 102(c) and the CREATE Act
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Aug 19, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 26: Information Submitted When Paying Maintenance Fee
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Aug 16, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 25: Conditions for First Application to be Granted a Notice of Allowance
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Aug 12, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 24: Petitions Under 37 CFR 1.137
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Aug 09, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 23: Response to a Notice of Noncompliant Supplemental Examination Request
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Aug 05, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 22: Required Elements of a Request for Ex Parte Reexamination
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Aug 02, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 21: Request for Reinstatement of All or Part of the Period of Adjustment
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Jul 29, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 20: Details of Substantial New Question of Patentability
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Jul 26, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 19: Items a Protestor Must Give the PTO
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Jul 22, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 18: Duty to Disclose
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Jul 19, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 17: Plants That are Not Patentable
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Jul 15, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 16: Signature Required for Disclaimer in Patent or Reexamination Proceeding
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Jul 12, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 15: Procedural Step for International Applications Going Through the International Searching Authority
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Jul 08, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 14: Request for Simultaneous Issue
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Jul 05, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 13: Term of Utility vs. Design Patent
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Jul 01, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 12: Two Separate and Distinct Requirements for 35 U.S.C. 112(b)
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Jun 28, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 11: Items Required in an Appeal Brief
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Jun 24, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 10: Contesting an Objection
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Jun 21, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 9: Two Types of Double Patenting Rejections
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Jun 17, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 8: Filings Third-Party Submissions May Not Be Directed To
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Jun 14, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 7: Type of Descriptions of the Interest Conveyed or the Transaction to Be Recorded
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Jun 10, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 6: Applicant Initiated Interview Request Forms
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Jun 07, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 5: Situations in Which Drawings are Not Considered Necessary
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Jun 03, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 4: Written Authority to Grant Access to a Provisional Application
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Jun 03, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 3: Significant Differences Between Nonprovisional and Provisional Applications
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May 31, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 2: Correspondence That May Not be Transmitted by Facsimile
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May 31, 2016 |
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MPEP Q & A 1: Major Types of Patent Status
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May 31, 2016 |