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PTO Rule Changes: Continuations and Claim Examination

PTO Rule Changes: Continuations and Claim Examination
Fri, Sep 14, 2007

Power Breakfast

PTO Rule Changes:

Continuations and Claim Examination

Friday, September 14, 2007

9:00-10:00 a.m. CDT

Merchant & Gould P.C.

80 South Eighth Street, Suite 3200

Minneapolis, MN

To participate via audio conference dial:

1-866-228-9900, Passcode: 991614

The USPTO has made considerable changes to claim examination and continuation practice that will significantly impact the development of patent rights.

Changes include:

* Only one RCE and two continuations or continuations-in-part permitted absent a showing the amendment, argument, or evidence "could not" have been earlier submitted.

* All applications with similar disclosures and overlapping inventors filed within any two-month period require a statement showing they are patentably distinct.

Join us for a discussion of these changes to patent practice and discuss tips and comments.

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