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EFS & PAIR News

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

By Christopher P. Singer -- This past week, the Electronic Business Center (EBC) posted two notices on its PAIR and EFS-Web systems. In the notice posted on the opening page of EFS-Web, the Patent Office announced that it is making a minor change to the document description identification of a letter submitted with an information disclosure statement (IDS). As of April 6, 2009, the EBC will discontinue the current "information disclosure statement letter" document description option, and it requests that Applicants begin using the document description "Transmittal Letter" for letters that accompany any IDS forms (SB/08a or 1449). The EBC...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on April 03, 2009 (boomark / email).