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USPTO News: Patent Office Proposes Rules Limiting Facsimile Submission of Papers and Setting Font Size Requirement

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

By Christopher P. Singer -- In a Notice published in the Federal Register (73 Fed. Reg. 45662) on August 6, 2008, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office proposes new rules that severely limit the types of papers that can be submitted to the Office by facsimile. Essentially, the USPTO proposes to amend the rules relating to facsimile correspondence to exclude any document that could be submitted using the EFS-Web. Thus, this rule would no longer permit facsimile-based filings of (for example) amendments, information disclosure statements, petitions, requests for continued examination, papers in ex parte or inter partes reexamination proceedings, design...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on August 07, 2008 (boomark / email).