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USPTO Rescinds Controversial Patent Regulations Package Proposed by Previous Administration

By jlutz99

The USPTO has rescinded a controversial patent regulation package.  Here's an excerpt of the announcement from the USPTO web page:

WASHINGTON ? Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO David Kappos has signed a new Final Rule rescinding highly controversial regulations, proposed by the previous administration, that patent applicants felt unduly restricted their capacity to protect intellectual property. The regulations, which addressed the number of continuation applications as well as the number of claims that could be included within each application, were published in the Federal Register in August 2007, but were enjoined and never came into effect.

Read more here. 

Posted by Jon Lutz

Full post as published by FSU College of Law Library Blog on October 22, 2009 (boomark / email).