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USPTO News: USPTO Schedules Roundtable Discussion on Deferred Examination

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

By Christopher P. Singer -- In a Federal Register pre-publication Notice scheduled to be published officially in tomorrow's Federal Register, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced that it plans to hold a roundtable discussion regarding deferred examination options. The announcement, and roundtable, is designed to assess whether there is general public interest in establishing a route of deferred examination of patent applications, and to discuss ideas about how deferred examination could be implemented. The roundtable discussion is currently scheduled for Thursday, February 12, 2009 (9:00 am to 12:30 pm EST). While the roundtable is currently planned to be open...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on January 27, 2009 (boomark / email).