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PTO Announces No IDS or Markush Rules During Bush Administration

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

By Kevin E. Noonan -- The American Intellectual Property Lawyers Association (AIPLA) reported today that two of the pending U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rules packages, regarding changes in the rules governing Information Disclosure Statements ("the IDS rules") and claims encompassing multiple alternative embodiments ("the Markush rules") will not be published as final rules (and thus, will not go into effect) before the end of the Bush administration. This outcome was announced by Margaret Focarino (at right), Deputy PTO Commissioner for Patent Operations, during her appearance before the AIPLA Committee on Patent-Relations with the USPTO.The proposed IDS rules would have...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on October 28, 2008 (boomark / email).