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USPTO Implements New Program to Teach Examiners How to Read and Understand Case Law

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

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By Donald Zuhn -- On Wednesday, the biotechnology, chemical, and pharmaceuticals (BCP) technology groups at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office held their most recent quarterly customer partnership meeting. During the last of six presentations, Associate Solicitor Janet Gongola outlined a new training module that the Office has begun using to instruct examining corps about case law. Ms. Gongola noted that the new training module had been first used on November 18th, and that the examiners in Tech Center 1600 (biotechnology and organic chemistry) would receive their case law training sometime in December.The new training module has been designed by...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on December 05, 2008 (boomark / email).

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