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

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April 18, 2011

If You Add A Dependent Claim And No One’s There to Hear It, Does it Make Any Noise? – Part III: It Does, But Only if the Forest is in the U.S.A.

In December I posted about In re Tanaka, a case before the CAFC in which the question was whether or not an applicant’s desire to add a new dependent claim,…
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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I’m Dan Feigelson. I’ve been practicing patent law for over 30 years. I’m also opinionated, as you may discover in reading my writings here.