Posts Tagged: public pair
Users Lament PAIR Changes During USPTO Forum
Jamie Holcombe, Chief Information Officer at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), seemed surprised to learn on Wednesday that both the Public and Private versions …
PolarityTE stock tumbles, harassed by activist short seller misrepresenting Public PAIR data
Whether the Citron report is intentionally wrong for the purpose of causing PolarityTE stock to tumble, which it has, or whether it is recklessly wrong, or just …
Doc’s Orders: Analogize to Overcome Patent Eligibility Rejections
Taking a hint from what has worked before can give patent prosecutors an advantage. The question is then how to find such examples for use in forming …
USPTO experiences catastrophic failure of electronic patent and trademark systems
On December 22, 2015, at approximately 7:00 pm, the USPTO experienced a catastrophic failure of electronic information systems due to what is being called a major power outage at the …
USPTO Systems Maintenance on December 5th
Due to maintenance required on USPTO systems, access to Public PAIR, Private PAIR, EFS-Web and EFS-Web Contingency will be unavailable beginning 12:01 a.m. and ending at 11:59 p.…
USPTO to issue Apple patents for traffic data system, antenna and curing material next week
On October 27th, Apple will be issued a patent for a technology that analyzes a person’s travel plans to provide them with potential points of interest, …
After 11 Years Apple Gets Design Patent on Drop Down Menu
Have you ever heard of a design patent application that remained pending for nearly 11 years? The design patent application was originally filed on January 4, 2000, and the design …
Making Progress with Difficult Patent Applications
Some patent applications are difficult to get agreement on. The examiner won’t allow and the applicant won’t abandon. The net result is that office actions …
The Strange Case of the Animal Toy Patent: Reexam Redux
Two months ago I wrote about one of my favorite patents --- The Animal Toy --- which is U.S. Patent No. 6,360,693. See Patent on a Stick: …
Breakthroughs & Abandonment: Patent Abandon Rate is a Reliable Measure of Speculative Portfolios
Abandons per action can be interpreted as a level of speculation in applications. Applications that have high abandon rates are highly speculative. Most of the inventions described …
Patent Searching 102: Using Public PAIR
If you are really serious about doing a high quality patent search on your own I recommend doing whatever you can to find 1 or 2 patents or patent …
Reducing Patent Backlog and Prosecution Costs Using PAIR Data
Patent applications as a whole over the past 10 years have had an average allowance to rejection ratio of about 0.3. We arrived at this ratio by generating a …
