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August 23, 2007

As Nutty As Squirrel Poo

Having attended the USPTO webinar on the new rules limiting examination, said limits applying both to the number of continuations/divisionals/RCEs for a patent family, and claims examined within each patent family, the interplay intricacy aimed at confounding prosecutors and thereby hobbling invention by said rules leads inexorably to a singular conclusion: my head hurts.

Posted by Patent Hawk at August 23, 2007 12:02 PM | The Patent Office