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An appeal at the Patent Office is an administrative process providing for substantive review of some action taken by the patent examiner in a patent application. Where a patent examiner has twice rejected a patent application, such as for novelty or obviousness issues, an appeal can be filed to have the case reviewed by the Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
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Clients often file a provisional application and then file a non-provisional patent application on the same or similar subject matter within a year. Clients and attorneys sometimes loosely refer to this as converting a provisional application into a non-provisional patent…
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For many years, registered patent attorneys, patent agents, and some pro se inventors have been able to log into a secure portal at the Patent Office website to file and monitor patent applications. The portal is protected by both a…
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Public use is a tricky area of law that can affect whether you can obtain a patent on an invention.
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