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: Patently ObviousSubmitting Positive Decisions to the World Patent Offices
By Dennis Crouch
A large number of US patent applications have corresponding applications being examined in various office actions around the world. Although the major Patent Offices generally give no legal deference to the decisions of another Office, it makes sense that the decision of a first-examining Office would at least inform the analysis of the second-examining Office.
On that note, is it a regular practice of patent applicants to highlight the positive actions of other offices (such as the allowance of parallel claims)? Are there certain worldwide offices where this type of submission is more common?
Full post as published by Patently Obvious on June 18, 2010 (boomark / email).
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