Abandonment
Mark, that's a good point. It looks there is abandonment of the application vs. abandonment of the invention, but what does that mean? We obviously need to find out.
posted by patentwhiz at 7:54 PM
posted by patentwhiz at 7:54 PM
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l Chapter 100 Secrecy, Access, National Security & Foreign Filing
l Chapter 200 Types, Cross-Noting & Status of Application
○ 201.07
○ 201.08 Continuation-in-Part Application CFR 1.53(d)
Continuation-in-Part
an application filed during the lifetime of an earlier nonprovisional application, repeating some substantial portion or all of the earlier nonprovisional application and adding matter not disclosed in the earlier nonprovisional application
§ Nonprovisional app
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l § 3
○ Chapter 200 Types Cross-Noting, & Status of Application
§ 201 Types of Applications
□ National Applications
¨ Provisional:never examined, can't be issued as a patent, buys you 12 months to file non-provisional app; establishes filing date
¨ Non-provisional : Direct/Indirect + Original/Continuation
1. Direct =Domestic nat'l patent app (filed directly with USPTO)
A. Utility,i.e. for "new & useful prcoess, machine, manufacture, or composition of matter
B. Plant patent app
C. Design pattent
One. C.
2. Indirect = app that has entered the nat'l stage through the PCT (
provides a mechanism by which an applicant can file a single application that, when certain requirements have been fulfilled, is equivalent to a regular national filing in each designated Contracting State. There are currently over 112 PCT Contracting States.
◊ After choosing whether to go the direct or indirect route, it could be either an 1)original app or 2)continuation of an eralier app (i.e. the applicant wants to continue prosecuting before the examiner even tho there was a final rejection, 3)divisional , i.e. divide a portioni of the app into a separate app, 4) continuation in part (CIP) (continuing and wants to add a new part)
¨ Reissue app (correct errors in an issued patent)
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