Recall that recently, as part of dissolving the “ghost art unit”, the USPTO created a new art unit 2919 headed by an Eric Goodman. Now for the first time, this new art unit 2919 has a publicly stated First Office Action Prediction. Cases in art unit 2919 that were filed two months ago have an FOAP of 18 months.
This compares favorably with art unit 2913 which has FOAPs in the range of 32 months.
Will you be in San Diego at the time of the INTA annual meeting? If so, there are two receptions that you won’t want to miss.
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President Obama signed the act enabling the US to join the Hague Agreement on December 18, 2012. Would-be users of the Hague Agreement have thus been waiting for more than two years for the Final Rules implementing the Hague Agreement. Today the USPTO published the Final Rules.
In coming days and weeks I will post comments and observations about the new Rules. If you’ve not already done so, I invite you to subscribe to this blog so that you will see the comments and observations.
