America-Israel Patent Law Blog

Observations on patents and other IP from a dual-licensed practitioner

Category: reexamination

April 24, 2025

Proposed Amendments to the Israel Patents Statute 2025, Part 1: The April Ambush

Yesterday (April 23), the Israel PTO notified members of its email distribution list of the publication of a memorandum of proposed new legislation (a tazkir hok) that would change principally…
December 9, 2010

If You Add A Dependent Claim And No One’s There to Hear It, Does it Make Any Noise? Israel PTO Rules That Application Cannot be Amended to Add Only Dependent Claims After Application Has Been Published – Part II

In the previous post I discussed the issue of amending granted US patents to include new dependent claims. In this post I look at the same question with regard to…
December 8, 2010

If You Add A Dependent Claim And No One’s There to Hear It, Does it Make Any Noise? Israel PTO Rules That Application Cannot be Amended to Add Only Dependent Claims After Application Has Been Published – Part I

NOTE: This is the first part of a two-part post. This part focuses on US practice; the second part will focus on Israel practice. During ex parte patent practice in…

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