USPTO

November, 4th, 2016

Categories: Blog, News Tags: patent, USPTO, whipgroup

WHIPgroup attorneys obtained allowance of an application directed to a control system for a melting and refining process. The application had received a Final Office Action that rejected the claims as obvious over a patent [Read More…]

November, 3rd, 2016

Categories: Blog, News Tags: patent, USPTO, whipgroup

WHIPgroup was successful in using the Post-Prosecution Pilot (P3) Program to reopen prosecution for a case directed to a medical manipulator. After receiving a Final Office Action, WHIPgroup used the P3 program to argue that [Read More…]

October, 28th, 2016

Categories: Blog, News Tags: patent, USPTO, whipgroup

WHIPgroup successfully used the USPTO’s new P3 program for an application directed to computer software for alerting an operator of a condition in an industrial system. The application received a Final Office Action that rejected [Read More…]

October, 27th, 2016

Categories: Blog, News Tags: patent, USPTO, whipgroup

Since the start of the Post-Prosecution Pilot (P3) Program in July 2016, WHIPgroup has participated in dozens of P3 conferences. WHIPgroup has successfully used P3 to advance prosecution of applications towards allowance without resorting to [Read More…]

August, 11th, 2016

Categories: Articles, Blog, News Tags: patent, PTAB, USPTO, whipgroup

After an oral argument before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board, WHIPgroup attorneys secured a written opinion reversing anticipation and obviousness rejections by the Patent Office. The patent application, for WHIPgroup client Netzsch, concerns a [Read More…]

July, 25th, 2016

Categories: Blog, News Tags: patent, USPTO, whipgroup

The USPTO launched the Post-Prosecution Pilot (P3) Program, which seeks to improve upon two other post-final rejection programs including the After Final Consideration Program and the Pre-Appeal Brief Conference Program. P3 provides the benefit of [Read More…]

April, 5th, 2016

Categories: Blog, News Tags: computer, USPTO, whipgroup

WHIPgroup has rolled out two new IP Cloud services: IP Cloud Reports and IP Cloud Share. IP Cloud Reports allows client access to detailed bibliographic data on their IP portfolios including PDFs of registrations. IP [Read More…]

February, 9th, 2016

Categories: Blog, News Tags: patent, USPTO, whipgroup

The USPTO recently announced its plans to continue the After Final Consideration Pilot 2.0 (AFCP) through September 30, 2016. The AFCP was introduced by the USPTO as an initiative to improve the efficiency of the [Read More…]

January, 12th, 2016

Categories: Blog, News Tags: patent, USPTO, whipgroup

WHIPgroup attorneys file a large number of patent prosecution highway (PPH) petitions. The PPH is a set of initiatives designed to accelerate patent prosecution by allowing participating patent offices to benefit from one another’s opinions [Read More…]