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USPTO Patent Grant Rate and Growing Backlog

Patently-O

by Dennis Crouch The USPTO utility patent grant rate data reveals an interesting narrative of policy shifts and administrative changes over the past fifteen years. The graph shows a clear upward trajectory from a notable low point around December 2009, when the grant rate bottomed out near 50%, to recent levels hovering around 75-80%.

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Can an Abandoned Patent Application be Revived?

Intepat

Upon notification, the applicant is expected to reply to the objections within six months, or the applicant can take an extension of another 3 months for filing of the reply. If the applicant fails to file a reply to the objections, the application is deemed to be abandoned. Author: Mansi Tiwari, Interns @IntepatIP.

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SpicyIP Tidbit: Delays, Lack of Manpower, Pending Applications- CGPDTM in Need of Institutional Reform

SpicyIP

For instance, in 2008, the Justice Allah Raham committee report raised the issue of a lack of sufficient manpower in the Office to cope with the exponentially increasing pendency of patent applications. The Committee report suggested a 12-step framework to expedite the disposal of patent applications.

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COVID-19 Vaccine Patent Infringement? The Battle Between Moderna and Pfizer/BioNTech Continues

SpicyIP

In 2005, they published their research and insights in a series of research papers and also filed a patent application disclosing this modification (which eventually issued as patent no. However, this discovery was made much before Moderna’s patent application and even before Moderna was incorporated.

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Does Prior Publication Extinguish a Trade Secret?

Patently-O

Order to Keep the Patent Filings Secret : The defendant has several patent applications pending at the USPTO which apparently include the trade secret algorithm within its specification. Here, the plaintiff raised “a serious question” and that was enough. Ultimax Cement Manufacturing Corp. 3d 1339, 1355–56 (Fed.

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Understanding Auxiliary Claims and Where They Come From 

SpicyIP

The auxiliary claims, in this case, were filed before the Court in August 2024 in an appeal against a 2017 order where the Controller had rejected ( pdf ) the patent application for the invention titled Methods And Systems For Treating Cell Proliferation Disorders.

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Gone Up In Smoke: Analysing the Controller’s Rejection of an E-cigarette Patent under Section 3(b)

SpicyIP

Assistant Controller Of Patents And Design accepting an appeal against the Controller’s decision rejecting a patent application for “aerosol generating article with multi material susceptor.” Understanding Why the Patent Application Went Up in Flames The patent application (no.

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