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Patent Office Extends Comment Period Regarding Deferred Examination

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

By Christopher P. Singer -- In a Notice published in the Federal Register (74 Fed. Reg. 28473) on Tuesday, June 16, 2009, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced an additional public comment period relating to a potential deferred patent examination pathway. This additional period for submitting comments expires on August 31, 2009. As readers will likely recall, the USPTO held a roundtable discussion back in February to assess whether the patent community had a general interest in establishing a deferred examination pathway in the U.S., and to discuss potential issues relating to implementing deferred examination. Following the roundtable, the...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on June 19, 2009 (boomark / email).