Patent Law

A Case for Citing to the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure

Posted on December 10, 2007
© 2007, Michael E. Kondoudis I recently had a debate with a colleague about whether it is preferable to cite the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP) or to court/board decisions in support of a patentability argument. Although this is an open question, in my experience, citing the MPEP has been more effective...

The Benefits of Efficient Responses and Approaches for Efficiently Responding to Rejections Under 35 U.S.C. §103

Posted on November 20, 2007
© 2007, Michael E. Kondoudis There is an old saying that ?sometimes, less is more.? This advice has particular applicability to patent prosecution where, with each word written, an Applicant risks generating argument estoppel. Additionally, each written word presents with it an inherent risk of introducing error...

Announcing My New Law Firm - The Law Office of Michael E. Kondoudis, PC.

Posted on November 06, 2007
My apologies, everyone, for the infrequency of the postings on this blog as of late, but there has been quite a bit going on. After months of preparation, I am pleased to announce that I have started my own practice. It is both a challenging and exciting endeavor, and those are two good reasons [...

See You At The AIPLA?s Annual Meeting

Posted on October 18, 2007
By Michael E. Kondoudis I will be attending the American Intellectual Property Law Association annual meeting here in Washington, DC. today and tomorrow. One of the more enjoyable aspects of conferences like this one is meeting readers of this blog. If you are going to be there, look for me...

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Obviousness After KSR - The U.S. Patent Office?s New Published Examination Guidelines

Posted on October 10, 2007
The U.S. Patent Office has just published new examination guidelines for determining obviousness in light of the Supreme Court’s recent decision in KSR International Co. v. Teleflex Inc. The published guidelines can be found here. Ramifications of this important decision were discussed in this earlier post...

A Technique to Assert the Patentable Weight of a Claim Preamble

Posted on October 05, 2007
© 2007, Michael E. Kondoudis   The Patentable Weight of a Claim Preamble Generally, during the examination of an application, an Examiner attempts to rebut the novelty and non-obviousness of a claim by identifying, in the prior art, teachings or suggestions of each feature of that claim...

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