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| you cannot lie to, cheat on, or steal from your clients or the patent office. Answers which suggest you can are wrong. |
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| you cannot file a response to an official office action more than 6 months after the date of the action. |
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| you no longer want to work for the client in prosecuting an application, you: |
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| file a petition seeking leave to withdraw |
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| you want to file a patent application in another country on an invention which was made in the US, you: |
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obtain a foreign filing license by:
a. the passage of 6 mos from the filing of a US patent application or provisional application containing all the required disclosure
b. the granting of a foreign filing license on the filing receipt of such an application
c. file a petition with the Commissioner asking for such a license |
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| you want to expedite progress of an application through the patent office, you: |
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| file a petition to make special |
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| you want to have the validity of one or more patent claims of an unexpired patent reconsidered in light of an issued patent or publication not originally considered by the Patent Office, but do not believe that any error or mistake was present in the patent, you: |
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| file a request for reexamination |
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| you find that through error and inadvertence the claims of a patent issued less than two years ago are two narrow, you: |
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| file a reissue application |
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you are far from the patent office and the application must be filed today to avoid a bar, you:
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| use Express mail filing procedure or file by facsimile under Rule 1.53(d) if available |
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| you have cancelled all the claims to which a givin named inventor made a contribution, you: |
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| amend the application to delete the inventor |
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| the inventor cannot be reached or refuses to file a sole inventor application in which your client has an interest, you: |
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| file the application on behalf of the hostile or missing inventor |
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| the inventor has made a subsequent improvement in the invention of a pending application which he feels should be part of the application, you: |
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| File a continuation in part application |
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| you have received an official action in a reexam setting a two month period for response, but for good and sufficient reason you cannot file a response until three months will have passed, you: |
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| file a request for an extension of time for cause before the deadline to respond, and not an automatic extension |
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| for good and sufficient reason you need to suspend prosecution and no official action is pending, you: |
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| file a petition to suspend for a definite time |
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| the application through inadvertence becomes abandoned, you: |
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| file a petition to revive |
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