by Steve Driskill | Jan 22, 2014 | [sub] priority, Formal Requirements
Take care to update the priority statement in each successive child application to properly reflect the entire chain of priority from the perspective of the new application. The “specific reference” requirement for claiming priority mandates “each [intermediate]...
by Steve Driskill | Jan 15, 2014 | [sub] patent term adjustment, PTO Procedure
For the purposes of calculating the patent term adjustment under § 154(b), the time between allowance and issuance is not “time consumed by continued examination” and therefore not to be excluded from adjustments given to the patentee under § 154(b)(1)(B)(i)....
by Steve Driskill | Jan 13, 2014 | [sub] printed publications, Prior Art
The fact that a printed publication may be incomplete (e.g., missing pages) does not automatically exclude it from being applied as prior art without a showing that the missing sections might “plausibly” teach away from the claimed invention. It is not plausible to...
