Do not let examiners get away with an improper restriction that limits your ability to make amendments that avoid the cited prior art.

We review an example of how some examiners try every trick in the book in the hopes that the applicant will get frustrated and give up.

The intricacies of a new ground of rejection explained.

There are numerous benefits to including a simple control system diagram in your patent application where applicable.

The PTAB does will not limit method claims to the listed order without a clear indication in the claims, and relying in antecedent basis alone will not be enough.

Do not let an Examiner muddy up a deficient prior art rejection with written description concerns.

A recent PTAB ex part appeal by Schlumberger illustrates a good example of how to limit unreasonably broad interpretations created by an Examiner.

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IBM fails to overcome Section 101 rejection, even with a very detailed claim, because it is directed to a business problem, not a technical problem.

As highlighted in a previous post, Section 101 (Alice) rejections have been increasingly applied according to constantly evolving guidelines that make it difficult to avoid or overcome allegations that a claim is directed to an abstract idea. As evidenced by the examples provided in the above-linked post and even in a recent post about an…