2017 january patent prosecution lunch
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Prosecution Luncheon
Patent
January 2017
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New Post-Prosecution Pilot (P3)• Combines features
– Pre-Appeal Brief Review Conference Pilot (Pre-Appeal)
– After Final Consideration Pilot Program (AFCP)
• Post-Prosecution Pilot (P3)– Submit Proposed After Final Amendment for
Consideration by a Panel of Examiners– Opportunity to Present to Panel (in person/phone)– Panel Provide Brief Written Summary
Claim status Reasoning for maintaining rejection
See, http://www.uspto.gov/patent/initiatives/post-prosecution-pilot
Program Over!Limit Reached
January 12, 2017
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eMod Text Pilot Program
• eMod = Future EFS & PAIR
• Benefits– Upload Applications (and other documents
eventually) as Word/text documents (.docx)– Download documents as Word/text documents
(e.g., Office Actions)
• eMod Pilot Program Open– BUT need to apply to the whole customer
number
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eMod Text Pilot Program- Requirements• Access to EFS-Web.• Registered eFiler- opted into the eMod Text
Pilot Program via Customer Number. • Registered eFilers may save a submission as
a work-in-progress for up to 7 days.• Text intake feature
– Only available for new Utility Nonprovisional submissions.
– Unavailable for all other submission types.• All required fields must be completed in order
to proceed with the submission. The required fields are indicated with an asterisk.
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eMod Text Pilot Program- Requirements• Open XML Word Processors (.docx)
– Microsoft Word 2007 or higher– Google Docs– Office Online– LibreOffice– Pages for Mac
• Specification, Claims, and Abstract submitted as text (separately?)
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eMod Text Pilot Program- EFS
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eMod Text Pilot Program- EFS• Warning Messages (yellow) for:
– Track changes,– Comments*– Bookmarks*– Hidden Items*– Continuous line numbering*– Text decorations*– Unused invalid fonts*– Unnecessary document properties*
• *The system will automatically make changes to the document.
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eMod Text Pilot Program- EFS• Warning Messages (yelllow) for:
– Abstract word count over 150– Unsupported OLE Objects (Supported OLE
Objects include Visio.Drawing 11, Equation.DSMT4, ACD.ChemSketch.20, ChemDraw.Document.6.0, Equation.3)
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eMod Text Pilot Program- EFS• Unable to Proceed further (red warning):
– Duplicate application parts– Invalid Page Size – cannot exceed Letter or A4– Contains Content control– Contains Custom XML– Invalid font
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eMod Text Pilot Program- EFS• Valid/Recommended Fonts:
– Georgia– Times New Roman– Arial– Arial Black– Arial Narrow– Arial Rounded MT Bold– Tahoma– Verdana– Trebuchet MS– Courier New– Calibri
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eMod Text Pilot Program- PAIR
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eMod Text Pilot Program- EFS• Download Outgoing Correspondence
(e.g., Office Actions)
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BREXIT & European Unitary Patent and Unitary Patent Court
• UK government has confirmed it is proceeding with preparations to ratify the Unified Patent Court Agreement. (28-Nov-2016)
• https://www.gov.uk/government/news/uk-signals-green-light-to-unified-patent-court-agreement
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Inauguration- USPTO Changes • USPTO Political Appointees Will
Resign by Inauguration (Jan 20, 2017) – Director- Michelle Lee??? – Deputy Director- Russ Slifer– Chief of Staff- Vikrum Aiyer– Chief Communications Officer-
Patrick Ross (Jan 19)– Plus a few others
• Commissioner for Patents- Drew Hirshfeld will then be Acting Director for the USPTO.
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India Changes• India’s new law is now similar to Australia in
that they have a date of 6 months (previously 12 months) from the first official action for putting an application in order for grant.
• There is an extendable period of 3 months, if the extension of time & fee is paid before the expiration of the 6 months’ time.
• Docketing – 6-month deadline for the application to be in
order for grant. – 1-month from the mail date of the examination
report to respond to the examination report (“instructions due – soft deadline”).
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India Changes
• Previously in India, the claims could not be amended at the time of the national phase entry.
• Under the new law, deletion of claims is now allowed at the time of the national phase entry to reduce the filing costs.
• However, no changes to the specification or additional claims may be added at the time of entry.
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Prosecution Luncheon
Patent
January 2017