Ex parte appeals (or “appeals”) provide a rare opportunity for applicants to involve new decision-makers to independently assess the quality of pending rejections. However, a substantial disadvantage of appeals is that they introduce a sizable prosecution delay. The average delay between a time at which an appeal is received at the Patent and Trademark [...]
The USPTO’s Patent Public Advisory Committee (PPAC) meets today (May 4) for its quarterly meeting. One of the interesting bits of information is presented below as part of the USPTO’s review of 10,000+ office actions. The information here is helpful, but is severely lacking because it does not separate Type 1 and Type 2 [...]
Indeed, the Code of Conduct for Article III Judges of the United States has specific provisions that would seem to absolutely prohibit a judge from handling a case where a litigant is a former client. Some may argue, perhaps correctly, that at some point any conflict requiring disqualification that might have existed as the [...]
By Executive Order dated February 24, 2017, President Donald J. Trump proclaimed: “It is the policy of the United States to alleviate unnecessary regulatory burdens placed on the American people.” In this Executive Order, President Trump ordered the heads of each agency to designate a Regulatory Reform Officer (RRO) within 60 days. The Executive [...]
Members of United States innovators business community have delivered a letter to President Trump requesting that the US Patent and Trademark Office,be exempt from federal hiring freeze announced. The 5th april letter was signed by nearly two dozen organizations and other entities, including the Biotechnology Innovation Organisation, the innovation alliance, the alliance of US [...]
NEW YORK, April 4, 2017, EyeLock LLC, a leader of iris-based identity authentication solutions, today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has issued U.S. Patent No. 9,613,281. The patent broadly covers the linking of an iris image with a face image acquired in sequence (during the same transaction) and represents [...]
