Suspending the Rules: A Year’s Worth of USPTO Petitions
Author: Richard E. WatermanPublished: August 17, 2021In some circumstances, patent applicants may petition the Patent Office to suspend non-statutory rules under 37 CFR § 1.183. As the text of the rule indicates, the Patent Office will only grant such petitions “[i]n an extraordinary situation, when justice requires,” but does not clarify
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