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USPTO Issues Notice to Remove Claims and Continuations Rule Changes from CFR

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

By Sarah Fendrick -- Effective October 14, 2009, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office revised the rules of practice to remove changes arising from the claims and continuations rules from the Code of Federal Regulations. The Federal Register notice stated the changes in the claims and continuation rules "addressed the Office's patent application pendency and quality issues, but did so with provisions that were objectionable to a large segment of the patent user community." The rules changes were initially published in the Federal Register in August of 2007. However, the changes were never implemented as the result of a preliminary...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on December 04, 2009 (boomark / email).