PTO Commissioner Q. Todd Dickinson violated rules of an international patent treaty by refusing to correct erroneous numbers placed on international patent applications, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has ruled. The court held that the PTO should allow obvious errors in applications filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty to be corrected, and that a failure to do so constitutes an abuse of discretion.
April 28, 2000 at 12:00 AM
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The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office should allow obvious errors in applications filed under the Patent Cooperation Treaty to be corrected, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit held April 14 (Helfgott & Karas P.C. v. Dickinson, Fed. Cir., No. 99-1308, 4/14/00).
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