Interesting quote in the comments (Comment 9) to the NEW rule set I mentioned previously on “Changes to Representation of Others Before the United States Patent and Trademark Office; Final Rule (14Aug2008)” (emphasis added):
Non-practitioners are not entitled to provide legal advice or otherwise practice law. To the extent practice of law includes a law-related service [...]
Tag Archive: provisional patent application
Can a non-patent attorney/agent write a patent application for another person?
Examiners citing provisional patent applications as prior art
One additional benefit/drawback of the Image File Wrapper system (which allows the public access to the file wrappers of pending patent applications) is §102(e) rejections based on published provisional patent applications. Of course, for there to be a “published provisional patent application” a non-provisional patent application must have been filed claiming priority from the provisional…
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