“The US doesn’t really need people to study computer science” – that is what the the USPTO is saying every day.

Restrictions used as a basis for downstream rejections.

Learn how to set up arguments to disqualify prior art as non-analogous to overcome obviousness rejections.

A tongue-in-cheek analysis of an epoch-making invention.

Do Oral Hearings at the PTAB help your case?

As discussed in previous posts (here, here, here, here, here, here), there are some pockets in the USPTO where some fundamental problems persist, forcing applicants into unnecessary appeals. Today we review two new decision from August in Art Unit 3747, one from Honda and one from GM.  In each case, the applicant pointed out clear…

See how examiners user boilerplate to respond to hindsight attacks, and how to re-focus the issue.

The PTAB says NO to patenting examiner statistics, but not for the reason you might think.

Review the rules of whether an examiner must consider preamble limitations.

See how declaration evidence can help establish that the examiner has not proven a reasonable expectation of success under the law of obviousness.