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USPTO Celebrates One-Year Anniversary of e-Office Action

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

By Sydney Kokjohn -- Last week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office celebrated the one-year anniversary of its e-Office Action (e-OA) program. So far, the program has electronically notified patent applicants on more than 850,000 Office communications and reduced Patent Office paper usage by more than 9.2 million pages. A pilot version of the program launched in December 2006 and later expanded to include additional USPTO offices (see "USPTO begins the 'e-Office Action' Pilot Program" and "e-Office Action Pilot Program Expansion"). In February of last year, the USPTO announced the pilot e-Office Action program would be made permanent in March....

Full post as published by Patent Docs on July 29, 2010 (boomark / email).