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USPTO Announces Change to Interview Procedures

By Donald Zuhn, Kevin Noonan, Chris Singer, Sherri Oslick, and Jason Derry

By Donald Zuhn -- Last month, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced a change in the way registered practitioners can show authorization to participate in an examiner interview. Under the old procedure, practitioners were required to file a power of attorney or authorization to act in a representative capacity in order to participate in an interview. Under the new procedure, practitioners need only file an Applicant Initiated Interview Request Form (PTOL-413A). The instruction sheet for the recently updated form notes that "[t]he Office will accept the signed form as an indication that the registered practitioner not of record is...

Full post as published by Patent Docs on September 01, 2010 (boomark / email).