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Anyone Remember What These "New Rules" Are All About?

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

By Kevin E. Noonan -- It has been quite some time since most in the patent community have given much thought to the ill-advised "claims and continuation" rules promulgated by the Patent and Trademark Office on August 21, 2007 that were preliminarily enjoined on Halloween, 2007 (one day before they were to go into effect) and permanently enjoyed on April Fool's Day, 2008. But with the Federal Circuit's decision last Friday overturning the bases for enjoining three of the four rules at issue, it is a good time to be reminded of what was (and now once again is) at...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on March 23, 2009 (boomark / email).