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USPTO News: Patent Office Posts Comments on New Appeals Rules

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

By Donald Zuhn -- On June 10, 2008, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office published a notice in the Federal Register setting forth amended rules of practice before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences (BPAI) in ex parte appeals (see "New Appeals Rules Published"). What escaped the attention of the patent community at the time, however, was the Patent Office's publication of a notice one day earlier requesting comments from the public on the Office's estimates for additional burdens imposed on applicants by the new appeals rules (see "USPTO Rulemaking Practices Being Called into Question (Again)"). The earlier Federal...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on September 12, 2008 (boomark / email).