Friday, February 20, 2015

Unavoidable No More...

by Steve Reiss of www.reisspatents.com

The PLTIA eliminates the provisions of the patent statutes relating to revival of abandoned applications or acceptance of delayed maintenance fee payments on the basis of a showing of "unavoidable" delay.  68 FR 62368, 62369

§ 1.137 Revival of abandoned application...

(a)  Revival on the basis of unintentional delay. If the delay in reply by applicant or patent owner was unintentional, a petition may be filed pursuant to this section to revive an abandoned application...

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