JD Supra

USPTO Proposes To Require Form For IDS PTA Safe Harbor

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 ...
IPWatchdog

USPTO Mandates Official Form for PTA Information Disclosure Statements to Automate Assessments of Patent Term Adjustments

“The agency’s decision to mandate use of Form PTO/SB/133 for PTA statements follows a sampling of PTA statements submitted independent of the official form, which revealed a portion of statements that ...
IPWatchdog

Change Needed to USPTO Power of Attorney Form

Said shortly, bluntly and as diplomatically as possible, the Patent Office needs to immediately revise its Power of Attorney form. I bet most patent attorneys and patent agents have never thought ...
JD Supra

USPTO Extends Patent Deadlines for Small and Micro Entities

From March to May of 2020, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) responded to the COVID-19 outbreak by offering various forms of relief to stakeholders. The widest ranging of these ...
Managingip.com

United StatesTowards a paperless PTO

The USPTO wants to make it mandatory to file trade mark applications electronically. Colleen Connors Butler of Brinks Hofer Gilson & Lione reveals the advantages and disadvantages of doing so Since ...