USPTO Program May Help Patent Applicants Avoid Rejections

By Ryan Davis

Law360, New York (July 14, 2016, 8:17 PM ET) -- A new U.S. Patent and Trademark Office program may make it easier for patent applicants to get their applications allowed after final rejections and avoid the expense of appeals by providing them with valuable opportunities to meet with examiners to plead their cases, attorneys say.

Under the Post-Prosecution Pilot Program, unveiled Monday in a Federal Register notice, applicants who have received a final rejection from an examiner can submit five pages of arguments about why the rejection is wrong, then meet with a panel of three...

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