Are patent examiners instructed to issue frivolous rejections?
So an applicant waits years on appeal to get relief from frivolous rejections, achieves a complete and total victory, and their reward is another bogus rejection from the same examiner who has been...
View ArticleProsecution reopened: Examiners stop applicants from appealing
Due to a bizarre jurisdictional “feature,” the Board does not actually get jurisdiction over a case until either a Reply Brief has been filed or the time to file a Reply Brief has run. See 37 CFR...
View ArticleUSPTO ‘judgment calls’ to blame for reopening prosecution after complete...
Robert Bahr, the Deputy Commissioner for Patent Examination Policy, responded that “hindsight is great,” and went on to explain that they thought that the rejections that were being appealed to the...
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