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Announcing Our New Website and Home on the Web! 26 Mar 2013 | 07:04 pm
I am very happy to announce our firm’s new home on the web, www.mekpatentlaw.com. By constructing an entirely new website and migrating to our new domain, we’ve been able to enhance the user experien...
The Nonobviousness of “Simple” Inventions 1 Feb 2013 | 01:18 am
As regular readers of this blog know, I advocate using the USPTO’s Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP) as primary authority during prosecution. This is by no means a per se rule, however. Th...
A Strategy To Speed Up The Prosecution Of Older Cases 23 Oct 2012 | 12:36 am
The USPTO’s Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP) includes many interesting but somewhat obscure provisions. One of the more useful examples of these provisions is § 707.02. Section 707.02 of ...
What To Do When An Applicant’s Entity Status Changes During Prosecution 21 Aug 2012 | 01:38 am
INTRODUCTION Applicants who qualify as small entities as defined by 37 CFR 1.27(a) enjoy a 50% reduction in most government fees. And, in most cases, a small entity applicant remains a small entity ...
The Analogous Art Requirement and How to Traverse Obviousness Rejections Based on Non-Analogous Art 8 Jun 2012 | 04:37 am
INTRODUCTION The provisions of 35 U.S.C. § 103 limit patent protection to claimed subject matter that would have been nonobvious to a “person of ordinary skill” in the claimed field of endeavor at th...
A Collection Of Useful USPTO Resources From USPTO.gov 5 Feb 2011 | 05:38 am
The following is a collection of useful pages from the USPTO’s website at WWW.USPTO.GOV. I have found that some of these pages are difficult to locate when navigating the site so I thought I would as...
A Few Recent USPTO Developments 21 Jan 2011 | 04:36 am
A New Way to Comment on the MPEP The USPTO has begun offering an alternate method for commenting on selected chapters of the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP). This new approach is modeled ...
How To File Color Drawings Electronically Via EFS-Web 20 Jan 2011 | 08:59 am
Generally, when drawings for utility patent applications are required, they must be black and white line drawings. Color drawings are permitted when they are the only practical medium to disclose a c...
The USPTO Updates Its Post-KSR Examination Guidelines 3 Sep 2010 | 12:25 am
The USPTO has updated its examination guidelines concerning obviousness under 35 U.S.C. §103, in light of precedential decisions from the Federal Circuit issued since the United States Supreme Court d...
Change in USPTO Procedure – Examiner Interviews Without A Power Of Attorney Now Permitted In Some Circumstances 14 Aug 2010 | 04:35 am
The USPTO recently issued a notice modifying the procedure for registered practitioners to show authorization to conduct an examiner interview. Now, in addition to the submission of an executed power...
