http://inventblog.com/uspto/first_round_of_.html Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:09:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://inventblog.com/uspto/first_round_of_.html/comment-page-1#comment-613 shane davis Tue, 30 Jan 2007 06:19:30 +0000 http://inventblog.com/?p=968#comment-613 I don't believe that the petitions are a waste of anyone's time if they are done correctly and in accordance with the sample templates provided by the USPTO. In addition, the examiner can tell, quite readily, when a search is conducted in the abscensce of a drafted set of claims. I don't think practitioners, across the board, are submitting petitions that adhere to the basic guidelines. The search should be as broad as possible, with each and every subclass listed in the search field. I don’t believe that the petitions are a waste of anyone’s time if they are done correctly and in accordance with the sample templates provided by the USPTO. In addition, the examiner can tell, quite readily, when a search is conducted in the abscensce of a drafted set of claims. I don’t think practitioners, across the board, are submitting petitions that adhere to the basic guidelines. The search should be as broad as possible, with each and every subclass listed in the search field.

]]> http://inventblog.com/uspto/first_round_of_.html/comment-page-1#comment-612 Examiner A Mon, 29 Jan 2007 19:56:27 +0000 http://inventblog.com/?p=968#comment-612 In my art, our pendency to first action is 12-18 months and once I was docketed a case that had a petition to make special. The SPREs had denied the petition so I did the case in regular order. I wasted about an hour of my time considering the search report and its off-topic references. Petitions to make special only waste the examiner's and the applicant's time. In my art, our pendency to first action is 12-18 months and once I was docketed a case that had a petition to make special. The SPREs had denied the petition so I did the case in regular order. I wasted about an hour of my time considering the search report and its off-topic references. Petitions to make special only waste the examiner’s and the applicant’s time.

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