Posts Tagged: federal register
USPTO Publishes Final Rule Codifying Significant Trademark Fee Increases
The USPTO recently published a Final Rule setting new fees for trademark filings and TTAB proceedings, which will be effective January 2, 2021. The last time trademark fees were …
USPTO Seeks Comments on Discretion to Institute Trials Before the PTAB
On October 20, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) published a “Request for Comments on Discretion To Institute Trials Before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board” …
U.S. Copyright Office Publishes Federal Register Notice Announcing State Sovereign Immunity Study
On June 3, the U.S. Copyright Office published a Federal Register notice regarding a study it is initiating to “evaluate the degree to which copyright owners are …
New DMCA Exemptions Including Use of Motion Picture Clips in Narrative Films for Parody or Historical Significance
One of the new exemptions for motion pictures includes the expansion of the exemption of TPMs protecting motion picture clips on DVDs, Blu-Rays and streaming services to …
USPTO Announces Access to Relevant Prior Art Initiative to Import Prior Art Citations into Patent Applications
The USPTO recently announced the implementation of the first phase of the Access to Relevant Prior Art (RPA) Initiative. The initiative is being designed to reduce the …
USPTO Publishes Final Rule Adopting Phillips Standard at PTAB
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has published a final rule in the Federal Register changing the claim construction standard applied during inter partes review (…
Patent Office amends PTAB Trial Practice Rules
Last week, on Friday, April 1, 2016, the United States Patent and Trademark Office published a final rules in the Federal Register. These newly minted final rules, which become …
Defending the USPTO Interpretation of the New Grace Period
The questions asked of the USPTO, and specifically Director Kappos, related to the USPTO interpretation of the grace period in 102(b)(1)(B). At one point, in response …
USPTO Publishes Proposed First to File Examination Guidelines
For well over a year I have been explaining that under the US first to file system the inventor will still have a personal grace-period, but that …
The Patent Twilight Zone: Keeping Significant Innovations Secret
It almost boggles the mind, but this Federal Register Notice explains that the USPTO is undertaking a study to determine the feasibility of requiring economically significant patents …
Recent Patent Related Federal Register Notices
At this time of the year many attorneys and agents are not paying all that much attention to the rules and requests for comments coming out of …
USPTO Seeks Comments on Future Locations for Satellite Offices
The USPTO sees the establishment of satellite offices as an important component of their continued efforts to recruit and retain a highly skilled workforce, reduce patent application …
US Patent Office Proposes Adopting Therasense Standard
In view of Therasense, the Patent Office is proposing to revise the materiality standard for the duty to disclose information to the Office in patent applications and …
USPTO to Revise Reexam Practice, Is Patent Reform Dead?
The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is seeking public comment on a proposal to streamline the procedures governing ex parte and inter partes patent reexamination …
U.S. Patent Office Issues Supplementary 112 Guidelines
Of course, it will be most useful for patent examiners to review and truly internalize the guidelines, but there is some excellent language here that is quite …
