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USPTO e-Office Action Program Launches

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

By Christopher P. Singer -- The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued a press release on July 21, announcing the start of the e-Office Action program following a successful pilot version of the program. The e-Office Action program allows participating patent applicants to receive e-mail notifications of office communications, rather than receiving the usual paper notifications by regular mail. Once an office communication is available for viewing and downloading in Private PAIR, an e-mail notice is sent to participants in the e-Office action program. According to USPTO's Acting Director, John Doll, the e-Office Action pilot program has, "dramatically reduced paper...

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