Want to know the best beauty product to spend your money on? (drum roll please) The best investment for beauty is sunscreen. The sun is one of the number of extrinsic factors that age us. So protecting from it on a daily basis is a must. Did you hear that? Protecting from it on a DAILY basis is a must. That means even if you are planning to stay inside all day, you should wear it. We get sun through windows. Lots of it! The car is not safe without sunscreen. So, if you think your protected in your sunroom reading a book while snuggled up on a lounge chair, think again. Your aging yourself while drifting off into fantasy-land with your most favorite author.
Did you also know that when you go up in a plane, you are getting more UV exposure? Pilots are very prone to skin cancers on heir faces. So, it makes since if we are at a higher elevation, we definitely need sunscreen. And if you are snow skiing on a mountain (higher elevation), you really, really need it. The snow acts just like the ocean and reflects those rays back into your face.
So, rain or shine, sleet or snow, get that sunscreen on. That sounds a little like a US postal service commercial, but sunscreen will be your best investment if you apply daily and reapply when appropriate. I promise! Call the office to find out what are our favorite sunscreens we offer. It’s one of our favorite things to talk about.
What conditions must the application satisfy in order to be included in the Phase I of the RPA Initiative?
(i) The application must be a non-reissue, non-provisional application filed under 35 U.S.C. 111(a) with a claim for benefit under 35 U.S.C. 120 or 121 of only a single prior U.S. parent application that was filed under 35 U.S.C. 111(a) or entered national stage under 35 U.S.C. 371 (the parent application can claim priority or benefit of other applications only under 35 U.S.C. 119);
(ii) The application is filed on or after November 1, 2018 and assigned to art unit 2131 or filed on or after January 1, 2019 and assigned to one of art units 1616, 1731, 2431, 2675, 2879, 2922, 3635, and 3753, and (iii) the claim for benefit to the parent application must be made in the application and reflected on the filing receipt before the application completes pre-examination processing.
The USPTO will determine whether an application meets the conditions for inclusion in the first phase of the RPA Initiative after the Office of Patent Application Processing completes pre-examination processing of the continuing application. That is, a filing receipt has been issued, there are no outstanding pre-examination notices (e.g., Notice to File Missing Parts), and the application has completed classification.
You will receive a Notice of Imported Citations informing you of your application’s inclusion in the Initiative and listing the citations from the immediate parent application that have been imported into the application.
The RPA Initiative seeks to leverage electronic resources to improve the examiner’s access to relevant information from applicant’s other related applications. These resources may include related U.S. applications, international applications under the PCT, and counterpart foreign applications by the same applicant.
The RPA Initiative will be implemented in phases, with phase I importing citations from the immediate U.S. parent application into a continuing application. In particular, the relevant information will be the citations listed on forms PTO/SB/08 (or equivalents) and PTO-892 in the immediate U.S. parent application.
An applicant’s duty to disclose information under 37 CFR 1.56 in the continuing application will continue to be satisfied for information considered in the parent application and will be satisfied for any additional information made of record by the Office in the continuing application.
No, the applications will be taken up for examination in the order in which they are filed in accordance with MPEP 708.
What should I do if I notice one or more citations from the parent application have not been imported into the continuing application?
If the Applicant would like these citations printed on the face of the continuing application, applicant would need to submit them on an IDS in compliance with 37 CFR 1.97 and 1.98. Otherwise, the Examiner will still consider the documents corresponding to these citations that have not been imported in accordance with MPEP 609.02.
The citations from the parent application will be imported once the continuing application is determined to meet the conditions for the Initiative. That determination will occur after the continuing application completes pre-examination processing.
All citations, both considered and unconsidered in the parent application, will be imported into the continuing application. The citations are those corresponding to U.S. patent documents, foreign patent documents, and non-patent literature (NPL) documents, contained on an IDS listing (e.g., PTO/SB/08 or equivalents) or PTO-892 in the file wrapper record of the parent application at the time inclusion of the continuing application into the RPA Initiative is determined.
Will there be multiple importations of citations from the immediate parent application into the continuing application in the first phase of the RPA initiative?
No. In the first phase of the RPA initiative, the Office will perform only a single importation of citations from the patent application. Any citations from IDS listings or PTO-892 forms appearing in the parent application after this single importation occurs will not be imported. However, the examiner will still consider the documents corresponding to citations not imported from the parent application in accordance with MPEP 609.02. To have such later-appearing citations printed on a patent issued from the continuing application, applicant must submit an IDS with the later-appearing citations in compliance with 37 CFR 1.97 and 1.98 in the continuing application.
If imported citations were compliant with 37 CFR 1.98 in the parent application, the examiner will consider the documents that correspond to the imported citations.
The examiner will indicate consideration of the imported citations in a Notice of Consideration. The examiner’s signature on the Notice of Consideration will indicate that the documents corresponding to all citations that have not been lined through have been considered. The examiner should inform the applicant in the first Office action of the reason(s) a citation was not considered.
Will the imported citations that have been considered by the examiner be printed on the face of the patent of the continuing application?
Yes, all citations that have been imported from the parent application and indicated as considered on the Notice of Consideration will be printed on the patent issuing from the continuing application. These imported citations will be marked with a double-dagger on the patent to distinguish them from the other citations of record.
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The UTC ETVA All-East Preparation Clinic will be held on Saturday, August 25 from 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the Roland Hayes Concert Hall of the Fine Arts Center. Registration will begin at 8:45 a.m. that morning. To expedite the registration process, please fill out the registration form in advance and email a list of participants to Alison Allerton (Alison-Allerton@utc.edu). Additional information can be found in this letter. Please contact Dr. Allerton if you have any questions.
The major presentations of the 2013 Unitarian Universalist Association General Assembly (GA). The goal of this year's GA was to move our Association "From Promise to Commitment." Promises call us into relationship. The experience of making, breaking, and re-making promises is the reality of our lived faith. We gathered in Louisville, Kentucky, to examine and renew our covenant to our faith, one another, our congregations, and the larger world. UUA President Peter Morales calls this collection "valuable not just for those who could not be in attendance but for people . who attended every one of these. There is much here that is worth re-reading with care and pondering in quiet, personal, unhurried times." Includes the Berry Street Essay by Rev. Donald E. Robinson and the response by Rev. Art McDonald, the Ware Lecture by Eboo Patel, and sermons from the Service of the Living Tradition (Rev. Vanessa Rush Southern) and the Sunday morning worship service (Rev. William F. Schulz).