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Third‐Party Pre‐GrantPrior Art Submission
Mark H. WebbinkSenior Lecturing Fellow
Duke University School of Law
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• Prior Rules for Third‐Party Submissions• Peer To Patent• AIA Third‐Party Submission Changes• Third‐Party Submission Opportunities
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PRIOR THIRD PARTY SUBMISSION RULES
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35 CFR 1.99
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• Identify the application• $180 fee• No more than 10• Physical copy• If appropriate, English translation
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No annotation – no explanation
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No third‐party opposition
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Limitation on number of references
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2007Only one third‐party submission
for every 500 applications
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H.R. 2795Patent Reform Act of 2005
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Crowdsourcing the searchfor prior art
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Voluntary participation byapplicants in order toovercome Sec. 122
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USPTO moved participatingapplications to the front of the queue
for First Office Actions
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Two pilotsThree phases2007‐20082008‐20092010‐2011
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USPTO determined participating classes
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Applicant notification
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Applicant consent
Publication
Peer To Patent posting
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More than 600 actively participating reviewers
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Discuss
Search
Post
Annotate
Rank
Submit IDS
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Four‐month review periodreduced to
three‐month review period
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Ten referencesreduced to
six references
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Participating applicants included•Major corporations•Non‐producing entities•Start‐ups•Individual inventors
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Findings• Impacted 20% of applications• 50% of submissions used were NPL• Examiners embraced submissions• Submitted prior art accretive• 4 prior art submissions per application• No impact on rejection rate• No technical background necessary
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Peer To Patent Tools• Searcher profiles• Class/subclass subscriptions• Search tutorials• Discussion, research, assignment• HTML and PDF versions of applications• Annotations workspace
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AIA THIRD PARTY SUBMISSION CHANGES
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Section 8Pre‐Issuance Submissions by Third Parties
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Expanded time for submissions
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Standard submissions as before
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Exempt submissions•Only three references•No fee•Submitted electronically
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AnnotationConcise description of relevance
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Early ResultsAfter only three months – 270 submissions
Primarily software related
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New USPTO System v. Peer To Patent•No subscription tools•No training tools•No tools for collaboration
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THIRD PARTY SUBMISSION OPPORTUNITIES
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Identifying New Applications of Interest
Search stringPD/3/18/2013‐>3/22/2013 AND CCL/701/23
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Collaborative prior art searching can be anonymous
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Possible new client service
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Improved patent qualityat
low cost