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Request for Comments on USPTO Initiatives to Ensure the Robustness and Reliability of Patent Rights

Patently-O

Feb 1, 2023, is the new deadline for providing comments to the USPTO on this RFC. Identify any specific sources of prior art not currently available through the Patents End-to-End Search system that you believe examiners should be searching. adopt a unity of invention requirement in place of the restriction requirement?

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Request for Comments on USPTO Initiatives To Promote Generic Drug and Biosimilar Competition

LexBlog IP

How should the USPTO facilitate an applicant’s submission of prior art that is not accessible in the Patents End-to-End Search system ( g., “on sale” or prior public use)? 112, and whether the claims do not cover the same invention as a related application? Would a benchmark ( g.,