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While we are working on a separate post, with comments on the different aspects of these suggested amendments, we are pleased to bring to you a post on the proposed changes to the prescribed timeline for the examination of a patentapplication. The post is authored by an extremely diligent SpicyIP intern Md.
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UH filed a patentapplication in Delhi, which AD opposed with a pre-grant opposition also filed in Delhi. Both the examination of the patentapplication and the objection were assigned to the Office of the Patent Controller in Chennai, where the objection was dismissed, and the patent was granted to UH.
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.” Full Scope Written Description : The Patent Act requires that the specification include “a written description of the invention.” The specification needs to convey that the inventor had “possession” of the claimed invention as of the patentapplication’s filing date. 35 U.S.C. §
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The Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP) 608.01(p) Failure to do so raises an inequitable conduct issue related to the applicant’s duty of disclosure, as discussed in our related posts here and here. In fact, a patentapplication does not need to provide a guarantee that a prophetic example actually works!
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This will be beneficial for the applicants filing PCT applications claiming priority from Indian Patentapplications and the Examiners at the IPO and WIPO who are handling such applications. 49 in the First Schedule of the Patent Rules, 2003.
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