Patent Law

Attorneys have always learned by following the example of their elders and peers. With that in-mind, I would like to post several exemplary responses to patent office rejections and objections. Please forward to dcrouch@patentlyo.com with a very brief explanation of the topic/technology. If you like, you may scrub the response for anonymity. Likewise, feel free to submit good ones you have found that were written by others. Potential topics:

• Arguing that combination is nonobvious (under KSR);
• Arguing secondary factors of nonobviousness;
• Swearing behind prior art;
• Arguing that prior art is not enabled;
• Disputing date of prior art;
• Arguing that prior art is not inherently anticipatory;
• Responding to obviousness type double patenting;
• Arguing utility;
• Responding to restriction;
• Arguing against indefiniteness;
• Arguing amendment is not new matter;
• Etc.