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April 15, 2008
Complex Work Unit Pilot
The
USPTO has a new pilot
program, guaranteed to become standard practice, to facilitate electronic
document submission for what it calls "complex work units:" chemical structure
drawings, mathematical formulae, three-dimensional protein crystalline structure
data, and table data. The program lets applicants submit such data
electronically in a variety of file formats. The thrust is facilitating prior
art searching by giving examiners ready access to the data, as opposed to
fiddling with conversion of paper submissions, as has been done in the past.
Posted by Patent Hawk at April 15, 2008 3:40 PM | Prosecution
Comments
Example patent applications for "three-dimensional protein crystalline structure data" can be found here: http://pxpatents.blogspot.com/
Posted by: Protein Crystallographer at August 31, 2008 1:30 AM