Business Methods by the Numbers: A Look Inside PTO Class 705
What these numbers tell you is if your application is in Art Unit 3622 or 3689 you are in for a long wait to obtain a patent. The numbers also show that if you carry the case all the way through appeal...
View ArticleIs there a Systematic Denial of Due Process at the USPTO?
After my presentation, as you might expect, I was approached by a number of patent attorneys. Story after story it was the same thing I have heard from so many others — depressing tales of not being...
View ArticleAllowance Rates for Art Units Examining Business Methods
If I were a patent examiner that hadn't issued patents for years I wouldn't want anyone to know that either. Similarly, if I were a Supervisory Patent Examiner (SPE) in an Art Unit that routinely only...
View ArticleThe Most Likely Art Units for Alice Rejections
While Alice rejections can be found all over the USPTO, roughly two-thirds of them are found in TC 3600. Only TC 2900 has not had any Alice rejections. Looking deeper into the 3620s, 3680s, and 3690s,...
View ArticleWhat the Patent Office Refuses to Understand
This new post-prosecution pilot program feels a lot like rearranging the chairs on the Titanic. Unless and until the Patent Office does something about recalcitrant patent examiners this effort may...
View ArticleE-Commerce Art Units: Where Patent Applications Go to Die
Upon closer review things are much, much worse than I previously reported. The problem is also far more widespread. Using LexisNexis Patent Advisor®, I looked at the E-commerce Art Units, this time...
View ArticleIs there a Tide-Change in the Prospects of Patenting Business Method...
In the years after the Alice decision, it had seemed as though examiners in the business method art units felt as though their hands were tied with respect to issuing applications. Even if they had...
View ArticleBusiness Methods by the Numbers: A Look Inside PTO Class 705
What these numbers tell you is if your application is in Art Unit 3622 or 3689 you are in for a long wait to obtain a patent. The numbers also show that if you carry the case all the way through appeal...
View ArticleIs there a Systematic Denial of Due Process at the USPTO?
After my presentation, as you might expect, I was approached by a number of patent attorneys. Story after story it was the same thing I have heard from so many others — depressing tales of not being...
View ArticleAllowance Rates for Art Units Examining Business Methods
If I were a patent examiner that hadn't issued patents for years I wouldn't want anyone to know that either. Similarly, if I were a Supervisory Patent Examiner (SPE) in an Art Unit that routinely only...
View ArticleThe Most Likely Art Units for Alice Rejections
While Alice rejections can be found all over the USPTO, roughly two-thirds of them are found in TC 3600. Only TC 2900 has not had any Alice rejections. Looking deeper into the 3620s, 3680s, and 3690s,...
View ArticleWhat the Patent Office Refuses to Understand
This new post-prosecution pilot program feels a lot like rearranging the chairs on the Titanic. Unless and until the Patent Office does something about recalcitrant patent examiners this effort may...
View ArticleE-Commerce Art Units: Where Patent Applications Go to Die
Upon closer review things are much, much worse than I previously reported. The problem is also far more widespread. Using LexisNexis Patent Advisor®, I looked at the E-commerce Art Units, this time...
View ArticleIs there a Tide-Change in the Prospects of Patenting Business Method...
In the years after the Alice decision, it had seemed as though examiners in the business method art units felt as though their hands were tied with respect to issuing applications. Even if they had...
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