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United States Patent and Trademark Office proposes significant increases to design patent fees and PTAB trial fees and proposes new fees that could influence applicant behavior and impact how patent applications are prosecuted and set to implement in January 2025
China’s National Intellectual Property Administration, CNIPA released another draft of the Patent Examination Guidelines, which is somewhat analogous to the US Patent and Trademark Office’s Manual of Patent Examining Procedure, MPEP. Comments are due December 15, 2022.
The USPTO Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) rules include a "safe harbor" that avoids a PTA deduction for "Applicant delay" for Information Disclosure Statements that are accompanied by a certain statement...
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Under current USPTO Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) rules, an Applicant can be charged a Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) deduction for “applicant delay” before examination commences if the application is not “ready for examination” within eight months of its filing date (or national stage commencement date). While that rule first came into effect with the December 18, 2013 Patent Law Treaty rule changes, we have been seeing more pre-examination PTA deductions since the USPTO implemented the Supernus-related PTA changes July 16. ...
USPTO can charge applicants with Patent Term Adjustments for applicant delays is the applicant is not ready for examination, which came into effect through the Patent Law Treaty rule changes, leading to more pre-examination PTA deductions.