Dissents are rare in Ex Parte appeals at the PTAB. A recent Section 101 appeal illustrates that sometimes even a PTAB judge thinks the PTAB goes too far in affirming Section 101 rejections.

The USPTO gears up for U.S. 10,000,000.

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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