Blame it on the Continu-rain…

February 23, 2007 on 10:14 pm | In USPTO |

A year ago, the Patent Office published (in the CFR) proposed rules entitled Changes To Practice for Continuing Applications, Requests for Continued Examination Practice, and Applications Containing Patentably Indistinct Claims, which among other things pointed the finger of blame regarding patent pendency squarely upon “continuation abuse.”

Professor Crouch (sporting a new blog design) did some research and casts some serious doubts on whether pendency issues can be blamed on continuations.

It will be interesting to see where this all goes…

See also:

  • Patently-O: How long do I wait for a First Office Action
  • Promote the Progress: Justify Your Existence: PTO proposed changes to continuation and continued examination practice

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    5 Comments

    1. I’m not sure “how squarely” the USPTO placed the backlog problem on continuation abuse. Following the comment period, the USPTO does not seem to have taken much action on the proposed rule changes.

      On whether the proposed rule changes would solve the pendency problem, see

      http://ezinearticles.com/?id=221598

      Separately, on the purpose of the patent system:

      http://ipbiz.blogspot.com/2007/02/los-angeles-times-flames-patent-system.html

      Comment by Lawrence B. Ebert — February 25, 2007 #

    2. Hello and thank you for this forum. My sister and I invented curtain hardware and had tried to get it on the market. We had great reviews, was shown by a magazine in the industry (on the road) and recieved great reviews. To Date, nothing. But today I recieved an email from a Dr. Fa’iz Imam, Executive Director of Emirates Manufacturing Corporation. Our actual names were used, our product name was used and I am skeptical of the email. But the content was to purchase our intellectual property. Has anyone in this blog ever hear of Emirates Manufacturing Corporation? I appreciate any information even as how to search about them. Thank you in advance.

      Comment by Linda Laster-Bivens — May 29, 2007 #

    3. Okay, I have tried to figure out how this company may have found my name and email but I am still unsure. In the email the subject matter was “the Delightful System” which is what we call our product and then the email was addressed to both myself and my business partner. Now, are there search engines that find email addresses? Can anyone out there help me with some information? (On the united inventors association site, I believe that my email was posted there-we did list it in the new products for license or sale) Could that be the route that was taken? Thanks in advance for any advice and information on this group.

      Comment by Linda Laster-Bivens — May 29, 2007 #

    4. [...] left a couple comments on this blog a few months ago with a question about the “Emirates Manufacturing [...]

      Pingback by The Invent Blog » Who is the Emirates Manufacturing Corporation? — June 25, 2007 #

    5. Regarding Ms. Laster-Bivens’ comments, see also http://inventblog.com/2007/06/who-is-the-emirates-manufacturing-corporation.html#comments

      Comment by Nipper — June 25, 2007 #

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