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What is patent prosecution?

Patent Trademark Blog

What does patent prosecution mean? Patent prosecution refers to the writing, filing and handling of patent applications. It encompasses the patent examination process from initial filing to the grant, including all the back-and-forth responses with the USPTO. filing child applications.

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What happens if your patent is rejected?

Patent Trademark Blog

A nonprovisional utility patent application has a roughly 90% probability of at least one rejection. A design patent application has an approximately 86% chance of approval. Basically, expect a utility patent application to be rejected at least once. How to respond to utility patent rejections.

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USPTO Requests Input on Patent Eligibility from Critical Sectors Impacted by Current Law

The IP Law Blog

Patent attorneys and inventors are often left to guess whether a particular invention is patent-eligible. Explain how your experiences with the application of subject matter eligibility requirements in other jurisdictions, such as China, Japan, Korea, and Europe, differ from your experiences in the United States.

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It’s a Product Patent… It’s a Process Patent… It’s Product-by-Process Patent!

SpicyIP

The present case is perhaps the first where the court deconstructs the question of patentability and infringement of product-by-process patent claims in India. But first, just to take a step back: What is a Product-by-Process Patent Claim? But what is the scope of protection in such a case?

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USPTO Requests Input on Patent Eligibility from Critical Sectors Impacted by Current Law

LexBlog IP

Patent attorneys and inventors are often left to guess whether a particular invention is patent-eligible. Explain how your experiences with the application of subject matter eligibility requirements in other jurisdictions, such as China, Japan, Korea, and Europe, differ from your experiences in the United States.

Law 52
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Schemes, Policies And Programmes For Patent Facilitation

IIPRD

Scheme for Facilitating Start-Ups Intellectual Property Protection. The central government brought a Scheme for Facilitating Start-Ups Intellectual Property Protection (SIPP) with a vision to protect and promote intellectual property rights of start-ups and thus encourage innovation and creativity among them.