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USPTO Offers Relief to Japanese Applicants

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Donald Zuhn -- Last week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that it would be offering relief to persons affected by the 8.9-magnitude earthquake that struck about 250 miles northeast of Tokyo on March 11 and the resulting tsunami. In particular, the Office stated that it would withdraw and reissue any outstanding Office notice in a patent application or reexamination proceeding having one or more inventors, an assignee, or a correspondence address in areas of Japan affected by the earthquake and tsunami. In a notice published in the Official Gazette, the Office said it considered the effects of...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on March 21, 2011 (boomark / email).