September, 18th, 2018
Categories: Articles, Blog Tags: patent, PTAB, RCE, USPTO, whipgroup
By Robert D. Keeler There are multiple strategies for addressing Final Office Actions at the USPTO. WHIPgroup already explained why examiners like RCEs (and why you shouldn’t). One alternative to an RCE – an Appeal [Read More…]
February, 12th, 2018
Categories: Articles, Blog Tags: patent, PTAB, RCE, startup, USPTO
By Stephen F.W. Ball, Jr. The USPTO’s “count system” is used to try to objectively measure examiner performance, and the categories “production” and “docket management” are over half of overall examiner performance measurement.[1] The reason it [Read More…]
July, 14th, 2017
Categories: Articles, Blog Tags: CAFC, chemical, IPR, litigation, patent, precedential, PTAB, RCE, USPTO
By Mackenzie L. Long In 1950 the Supreme Court outlined the two tests for evaluating the doctrine of equivalents in the case, Graver Tank & Mfg. Co. v. Linde Air Products Co., 339 U.S. 605, [Read More…]
March, 10th, 2017
Categories: Articles, Blog, News Tags: patent, PTAB, RCE, whipgroup
By Benjamin N. Luehrs and Robert D. Keeler On January 12, 2017, the USPTO’s Post-Prosecution Pilot (P3) Program concluded its six-month term, having accepted over 1,500 applications. P3’s aim was (1) to increase communication between [Read More…]
October, 21st, 2015
Categories: Articles, Blog, News Tags: computer, PTAB, RCE, software, USPTO, whipgroup
After an unsuccessful appeal on a patent prosecution case inherited from another firm, Whitmyer IP Group filed a Request for Continued Examination (RCE), presenting a new set of claims based on careful analysis of the [Read More…]
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