(After I blogged on November 22 about how USPTO could do better in receiving updated bib data, on December 21 USPTO announced a new system for receiving updated bib data. Please see my blog article about USPTO’s new system.)
About once a week in our office we find the need to update, change, or add bibliographic (bib) data in a pending patent application at the USPTO. In general what we find is that the USPTO does not follow its own rules for such changes. The USPTO’s procedures are ill-conceived, making poor use of the time of applicant and Office personnel alike. In a later blog post I will describe what USPTO should do instead. But for this blog post I will detail what the USPTO rules actually say about how to accomplish bib data changes, in the hope that this might be helpful to others. Continue reading “How to change bib data at the USPTO”