The USPTO Patent Term Adjustment (PTA) rules include a “safe harbor” that avoids a PTA deduction for “Applicant delay” for Information Disclosure Statements that are accompanied by a certain statement ...
From March to May of 2020, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (“USPTO”) responded to the COVID-19 outbreak by offering various forms of relief to stakeholders. The widest ranging of these ...
“The agency’s decision to mandate use of Form PTO/SB/133 for PTA statements follows a sampling of PTA statements submitted independent of the official form, which revealed a portion of statements that ...