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New Rules of Practice Before the BPAI

By just_n_examiner

Back in November, the Office published a final rule detailing changes in the rules of practice before the Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences. The changes apply to all ex parte appeals in which the notice of appeal was filed on or after 23 January 2012.The changes seem to be a logical rolling back of some provisions of the rules which required appeal briefs and examiner's answers to include seemingly overly formalistic or redundant information. These include:* Statement of status of clai read more

Full post as published by Just a Patent Examiner on February 27, 2012 (boomark / email).