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April 24, 2006

PTO Democracy At Work

The patent office put out a media advisory Friday about a "town hall" meeting on Tuesday at agency headquarters "to educate the public on USPTO's plans to streamline the application review process." Short notice, and with good reason.

This is the next step in the patent agency's process to ramrod its desired changes to the examination process. Here's the PTO briefing on those changes. And here is previous reporting of the outrage at the changes. Get your continuations filed soon, before they are limited.

Posted by Patent Hawk at April 24, 2006 1:10 PM | Prosecution