U.S. patent prosecution for support staff
Subtitle: a desk reference / Rosaleen A. Walsh
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2013
Place of publication: North Charleston, South Carolina
Language: eng
Number of pages: 534
ISBN-13: 9781492921622
Subjects: Patent laws and legislation; Patent practice; Rules and practice; Legal assistants; Handbooks, manuals; United States. Patent and Trademark Office; United States
Other titles: United States patent proseution for support staff
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Functions and core concepts of the patent system; title: U.S. patent laws, rules, and regulations; title: Filing methods and handling of papers by the USPTO; title: Representative capacity and power of attorney; title: Types of patent applications; title: Inventorship, non-inventor applicants, ownership, and assignment; title: Provisional patent applications; title: Non-provisional patent applications; title: Publication of applications; title: Duty of disclosure, citation of references, and third-party pre-issuance submissions; title: Completion of pre-examination filing formalities; title: Order of examination; title: Examination and the criteria for patentability; title: Office actions and responses, request for continued examination, appeal, and abandonment; title: Allowance, issuance, and maintenance; title: Continuing applications; title: Patent term; title: duration, adjustment, and extension; title: U.S. national phase entry from an international application; title: Correction of patents; title: reissue applications and certificates of correction; title: Post-issuance citation of prior art and ex parte reexamination proceedings; title: Post-grant review proceedings under the America Invents Act.