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	<title>Biotechnology Patent Law Blog &#124; Patents4Life by Warren Woessner &#187; USPTO Practice and Policy</title>
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		<title>Report From Bio &#8211; Everyone Into The Pool!</title>
		<link>http://www.patents4life.com/2011/06/report-from-bio-everyone-into-the-pool/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:38:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren Woessner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been hearing about &#8220;patent pools&#8221; for biotech patents for years, but Kristen Neuman made it much more real at a Break-Out Session on Diagnostics and Personalized Medicine at the BIO International Convention in DC today (6/29/11). The session was chaired by Jennifer Gordon of BaketBotts but the star was Ms. Neuman of Proskauer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No USPTO Shutdown For Now</title>
		<link>http://www.patents4life.com/2011/04/uspto-news-from-director-kappos/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 21:29:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren Woessner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Message from Director David Kappos             Dear Colleagues,              As you know, the Administration is working diligently with Congress to ensure that the federal government remains open and continues to do its work on behalf of the American people. However, I wanted to personally inform you that even in the event of a government [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PTO Issues Final Rule to Implement Prioritized Examination Track (Track I)</title>
		<link>http://www.patents4life.com/2011/04/pto-issues-final-rule-to-implement-prioritized-examination-track-track-i/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 19:48:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren Woessner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is from the Schwegman, Lundberg &#38; Woessner Newsletter, April 6, 2011. The Patent and Trademark Office on April 4, 2011, issued a final rule to implement prioritized examination upon an applicant&#8217;s request and payment of a $4,000 request fee and other filing fees.  76 Fed. Reg. 18399. Under the new rule, 37 C.F.R. 1.102(e), [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Teresa Rea Appointed Deputy Director of the USPTO</title>
		<link>http://www.patents4life.com/2011/02/teresa-rea-appointed-deputy-director-of-the-uspto/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 15:21:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren Woessner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teresa Stanek Rea has been appointed Deputy Director of the Patent Office and will report directly to Director Kappos. I don&#8217;t remember when I haven&#8217;t known Terry, as she has been active in the AIPLA for years. She has been a Board member and then, from serving as Secretary, worked her way up the &#8220;officer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Supplementary 112 Examination Guidelines &#8211; What&#8217;s In It For Me?</title>
		<link>http://www.patents4life.com/2011/02/supplementary-112-examination-guidelines-whats-in-it-for-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren Woessner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Post is from Mark Muller, Shareholder at Schwegman, Lundberg &#38; Woessner, P.A. Supplementary examination guidelines for Section 112 were recently published in the Federal Register and sent out for public comment.  While the details may not be too exciting, it’s a good opportunity to remind ourselves that when claims use functional language referencing some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get Your Application On The Fast Track &#8211; For A Price</title>
		<link>http://www.patents4life.com/2011/02/get-your-application-on-the-fast-track-for-a-price/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 16:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren Woessner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday, the PTO proposed changes in the rules to permit applicants for U.S. patents to receive &#8220;prioritized examination&#8221; (76 Fed. Reg. 6370 (Feb. 4 2011) – a copy is attached below). This program is a remnant of the three-track examination the PTO proposed in June 2010, whereby applicants could pay to delay examination for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Patent Office To Open Satellite Office In Detroit</title>
		<link>http://www.patents4life.com/2010/12/patent-office-to-open-satellite-office-in-detroit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 17:43:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren Woessner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The USPTO has announced that it will open a satellite office in Detroit in 2011, that will employ about 100 people. The PTO said that Detroit was chosen due to its high percentage of scientists and engineers “in the workforce” (ed.’s note: and drawing unemployment), its leading universities (ed.’s note: true, considering Wayne State, the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stayin’ Alive – Patent Office Extends “Provisional Application Period.”</title>
		<link>http://www.patents4life.com/2010/12/stayin%e2%80%99-alive-%e2%80%93-patent-office-extends-%e2%80%9cprovisional-application-period-%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 22:28:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren Woessner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On December 8th, the Patent Office announced plans to implement a “Missing Parts Pilot Program” that would permit applicants at the end of the one-year U.S. provisional application term to defer substantive examination for up to 12 months by filing a regular U.S. application, and paying various fees to defer replying to the notice to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PTO Proposes Simplified Appeal Process – Compared to What?</title>
		<link>http://www.patents4life.com/2010/11/pto-proposes-simplified-appeal-process-%e2%80%93-compared-to-what/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:02:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren Woessner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On November 15th, Director Kappos published 21 pages of proposed rulemaking entitled “Rules of Practice Before the [BPAI] in Ex parte Appeals.&#8221; 75 Fed. Reg. 69828 (Nov. 15, 2010). (A copy is available at the end of this post.) There is an entire column of “Background” which summarizes the fate of the rule changes first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Director Kappos &#8220;Chats&#8221; About PTO S.W.O.T.</title>
		<link>http://www.patents4life.com/2010/10/director-kappos-chats-about-pto-s-w-o-t/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Oct 2010 22:17:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Warren Woessner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wednesday noon at the AIPLA 2010 Annual Meeting, USPTO Director David Kappos engaged in a &#8220;fireside chat&#8221; (actually podium-side chat) with AIPLA Executive Director and former PTO Director Q. Todd Dickinson about the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats that he has experienced since becoming Director. Regarding the 710,000 application backlog, he stated that his goal was [...]]]></description>
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