U.S. Patent and Trademark Office building in Alexandria, Virginia. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM
One little digit on an address form has caused one giant headache for a patent applicant.
The PTO kept sending mail to an incorrectly provided street address, even though it had an email, a telephone number and a unique customer identifier it could have cross-checked. Judge Leonie Brinkema ruled that it was likely arbitrary and capricious for the PTO to withdraw a patent application under those circumstances.
June 17, 2021 at 04:05 PM
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U.S. Patent and Trademark Office building in Alexandria, Virginia. Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALM
One little digit on an address form has caused one giant headache for a patent applicant.
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