After waiting one to two years (or longer) from the filing date of your utility nonprovisional patent application, you will eventually receive a letter called an “Office Action” from the patent examiner assigned to your application. The average wait time for the first patent Office Action vari...
Despite the upturn, the patent office needs to increase fees to meet the ambitious goals in its proposed $2.322 billion budget for next year. Those goals include reducing the average time to first office action on the merits for patent applications to 10 months by 2014 and reducing total avera...
Ltd. filed an invalidation action with the JapanPatent Officeagainst Nichia Corporation’s blue LED patent No. JP2780691. everlight.com everlight.com 億光電子工業股份有限公司對日亞化學工業株式会社所擁有的藍光LED相關專利 JP2780691,向日本特許廳(智慧財產局)提出專利無效審判請求。
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Step 2: Determine the due date to respond to the office action The due date to respond to the office action will be explained in the first paragraph of the second page. The time period for filing a response may be one, two, or three months from the mail date of the office action. ...
When is the deadline for a Patent Office Action response? The cover page of a patent Office Action contains two important pieces of information: the specific details of the particular patent application, including the application number, filing date, first named inventor, etc.; and the Notificatio...
The key difference is that a first action final rejection is based on the relationship between the current application and its parent or a previous RCE filing, while a second action final rejection follows a non-final office action in the same application. ...
(i.e. the first office action). Doing so allows the Applicant to streamline examination by selecting the most desirable foreign claims for allowance in Israel. This strategic approach can significantly reduce the risk of Examiners issuing avoidable office actions, ther...
As for design patent applications, the average pendency for a first office action and for disposal were 6.1 months and 7.4 months respectively, showing a stable trend. 專利審查速度加快,同步帶動品質提升。2018年發明專利審結案件中,核准了 30,585 件占 77.4%,核駁 8,063件占 20.4%(其他含撤回等 880...
You will then receive a patentability opinion, called an “Office Action.” In most cases, the Office Action will indicate denial of the patent which will trigger one or more rounds of responses from you and the USPTO. If rejected, you or your patent lawyer can appeal the decision and ...