Yearly Archives: 2016

On behalf of the United Inventors Association of America (“UIA”), the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic of the American University Washington College of Law submitted a comment to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) with respect to the proposed automated pre-examination search system (“APEx”) under Proposal 2 of ...

By Dennis Crouch Quality patent examination demands that patent examiners first identify the closest and most applicable prior art. To that end, the USPTO has spent many millions of dollars to ensure that examiners have fingertip-access to extensive databases of prior art literature. For patent documents, the USPTO maintains a ...

Jorge L. Contreras May 6, 2015 Prior to 2002, U.S. patent examiners were permitted to reject claims for obviousness based on “common knowledge and common sense of a person of ordinary skill in the art without any specific hint or suggestion in a particular reference.” But this practice was effectively ...

By Bernard Chao In its recent “Request for Comments on Enhancing Patent Quality,” the Patent Office specifically asked for proposals targeted at clarifying the public record. This paper responds to that request by following up on a recommendation that I made in the Patently-O Blog last year. Specifically, I suggested ...

A submission to the Berkeley Technical Law Journal In response to the USPTO’s Request for Comments on Enhancing Patent Quality Donald L. Champagne, Ph.D., P.E. The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine 4 May 2015 I have chosen the BTLJ’s format, which asks for a response to the following six ...

Andrew Chin University of North Carolina School of Law Pillar 1, Proposal 2 relates to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s development of automated search tools for identifying potentially relevant prior art. The USPTO’s Scientific and Technical Information Center (STIC) currently uses a search tool called the Patent Linguistic Utility ...

American Chemical Society (ACS) The American Chemical Society (ACS) supports Proposal 1 under Pillar 1 since it helps bring issues to the Office of Patent Quality Assurance as they arise during examination. It supports Proposal 5 under Pillar 3 because it allows applicants to resolve or reduce issues before costly ...

American Chemical Society (ACS) The American Chemical Society (ACS) supports Proposal 1 under Pillar 1 since it helps bring issues to the Office of Patent Quality Assurance as they arise during examination. It supports Proposal 5 under Pillar 3 because it allows applicants to resolve or reduce issues before costly ...

American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) The American Intellectual Property Law Association (AIPLA) comments on all three of the PTO Pillars and the six proposals thereunder. The AIPLA suggests certain modifications that would make the process for requesting prosecution reviews more effective, such as publicizing how and when review applications ...

American Chemical Society (ACS) The American Chemical Society (ACS) supports Proposal 1 under Pillar 1 since it helps bring issues to the Office of Patent Quality Assurance as they arise during examination. It supports Proposal 5 under Pillar 3 because it allows applicants to resolve or reduce issues before costly ...