preexamination

• The guidelines "strongly recommend" that applicants include disclosed but unclaimed features that applicant may later claim in the initial preexamination search to avoid the need to update the preexamination search.

USPTO Releases Guidelines on Examination Support Docs (ESDs) Peter Zura 2007

• The guidelines "strongly recommend" that applicants include disclosed but unclaimed features that applicant may later claim in the initial preexamination search to avoid the need to update the preexamination search.

Archive 2007-09-01 Peter Zura 2007

• "The Office may consider a preexamination search insufficient if the Office determines that a number of references found in the areas where applicant has searched are more closely related to the subject matter of the claims than those references cited by the applicant."

USPTO Releases Guidelines on Examination Support Docs (ESDs) Peter Zura 2007

• "The Office may consider a preexamination search insufficient if the Office determines that a number of references found in the areas where applicant has searched are more closely related to the subject matter of the claims than those references cited by the applicant."

Archive 2007-09-01 Peter Zura 2007

This intervention was all the more remarkable for being implemented in the only time available—during the fifteen or twenty minutes of a preexamination screening interview.

Planned Short-Term Treatment RICHARD A. WELLS 1994

Although the pre-examination is not relevant for candidates due to sit the EQE in 2010 and 2011, candidates for those years are welcome to try out the proposal preexamination.

The IPKat - happy to serve the IP communities David 2010

SGS trains and certifies people to the highest inspection standards and is qualified to conduct both the required preexamination training and the PCN examinations for Levels 1, 2 and 3.

Aktuellste Pressemeldungen der PresseBox SGS Industrial Services 2010

The ESD includes a preexamination prior art search, a list of the most relevant references and limitations disclosed by each reference, an explanation of how each independent claim is patentable over the submitted references, and an analysis of how each limitation of the claims is disclosed and enabled by the specification.

Patent Law Blog (Patently-O) 2009

Rules 75 & 265: The "5/25 ESD Rules" - applicant submitting either more than five independent claims or twenty-five total claims must provide an examination support document “ESD” that includes a preexamination prior art search, a list of the most relevant references and limitations disclosed by each reference, an explanation of how each independent claim is patentable over the submitted references, and an analysis of how each limitation of the claims is disclosed and enabled by the specification.

Archive 2009-03-01 Peter Zura 2009

Rules 75 & 265: The "5/25 ESD Rules" - applicant submitting either more than five independent claims or twenty-five total claims must provide an examination support document “ESD” that includes a preexamination prior art search, a list of the most relevant references and limitations disclosed by each reference, an explanation of how each independent claim is patentable over the submitted references, and an analysis of how each limitation of the claims is disclosed and enabled by the specification.

CAFC Throws a Bone to the PTO in Tafas Case: Now What? Peter Zura 2009