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More on USPTO Rulemaking Practices

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

By Donald Zuhn -- Yesterday, we reported on the Patent Office's publication of a Notice in the Federal (73 Fed. Reg. 32559) requesting that interested members of the public comment on the Office's estimates for any additional burdens imposed on applicants by the new appeals rules. In a departure from recent Patent Office practice, the Notice was published in the Federal Register but not on the Office's website, and in a departure from standard rulemaking procedure, the Notice was published on June 9, 2008, only one day before the appeals Final Rule Notice was published. Following yesterday's report, David Boundy...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on July 22, 2008 (boomark / email).