Sentences with phrase «patent examination process»

Patent attorneys, Michael Brodbine and John Nemazi at Brooks Kushman discuss the benefits of the patent offices around the world that are working together to create an efficient patent examination process.

The patent deed consists primarily of the information submitted in the patent application, as modified during the patent examination process.

Recommendation: The Secretary of Commerce should direct the Director of PTO to consider examining trends in patent infringement litigation, including the types of patents and issues in dispute, and to consider linking this information to internal data on patent examination to improve the quality of issued patents and the patent examination process.

However, the agency does not currently use information on patent litigation in initiating such actions; some PTO staff said that the types of patents involved in infringement litigation could be linked to PTO's internal data on the patent examination process, and a 2003 National Academies study showed that such analysis could be used to improve patent quality and examination by exposing patterns in the examination of patents that end up in court.

Some USPTO staff also told GAO that the types of patents involved in infringement litigation could be linked to USPTO's internal data on the patent examination process.

GAO recommended that the Director of USPTO should consider examining trends in patent infringement litigation and to consider linking this information to internal data on patent examination to improve the quality of issued patents and the patent examination process.

I would also be interested to know how, given that (1) one of the purposes of «Patent Reform» is allegedly «greater harmonization» with the rest of the world and (2) ESD and IDS requirements are not part of the patent examination process in any other major patent office, the USPTO can legitimately justify the ESD and IDS requirements as furthering «Patent Reform.»

It comprises 24 chapters, comprehensively regulating the patent examination process, from the application requirements, through the actual examination itself, to appeals and protests.

The cornerstone of the procedure is the aptly named Manual of Patent Examining Procedure, a very large publication that describes in excruciating detail how the patent examination process works and establishes how examiners are supposed to review patent applications.