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USPTO Provides More Details Regarding "Three Track" Examination Proposal

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

By Donald Zuhn -- Last week, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office provided additional details regarding its proposed "Three Track" patent examination initiative. An outline of the Office's Three Track program, or Enhanced Examination Timing Control Initiative, was originally provided in a Federal Register notice (75 Fed. Reg. 31763) published last June (see "USPTO Publishes Notice Regarding Enhanced Examination Timing Control Initiative"). In that notice, the Office indicated that under the Three Track proposal, applicants would be able to: (1) request "prioritized examination" (Track I examination), (2) request a delay of up to 30 months in the docketing of a...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on February 08, 2011 (boomark / email).