Pre-Search Interview Program

Pre-Search Interview Program Kate S. Gaudry Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP Compact prosecution—that is, reaching a final disposition … Continue Reading

Comment Regarding USPTO Proposal 3: Clarity of Record

Comment Regarding USPTO Proposal 3: Clarity of Record Matthew T. Kitces Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP An efficient … Continue Reading

Improving Patent Examination at the US Patent and Trademark Office

Perfect Examination The U.S. Patent Office has never aspired to provide perfect examination. Under the old law, the … Continue Reading

Empowering American Innovation: APEX for Independent Inventors and the Public

On behalf of the United Inventors Association of America (“UIA”), the Glushko-Samuelson Intellectual Property Law Clinic of the … Continue Reading

“Excellence to the Public”: The Missed Pillar of Patent Quality in the USPTO’s Initiative

Charles Duan, Daniel Nazer, Ange Royall-Kahin, Vera Ranieri, and Julie P. Samuels In its February 5, 2015 Request … Continue Reading

Provisional Patent Applications as Prior Art

By Dennis Crouch Quality patent examination demands that patent examiners first identify the closest and most applicable prior … Continue Reading