85% of AESD’s don’t cut the USPTO’s Mustard?

September 17, 2007 on 8:49 am | In Legislation/Regulation, Patent Searching, USPTO |

Follow-up to my earlier post on ESD rates, according to patent attorney Stephen B. Maebius (via an e-mail from Hal Wegner), 85% of all AESD’s filed in April were dismissed or denied. [updated to clarify…the more recently filed AESD may have higher success rates]

While you are still provided with an opportunity to resubmit…I just can’t see that the drawbacks and cost will ever be worth the risk. I haven’t found a practitioner yet that disagrees…meaning the ultimate result of the rule changes it to mandate 5/25 or less.

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