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What are the consequences of the decision from the Federal Circuit on the new USPTO regulations?

By AWA | Posted on April 7, 2009

In August 2007 the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued a rules package intended to limit the number of patent claims in a single patent application to 25 (including a maximum of 5 independent claims) and also to restrict the possibility of filing what are known as “continuation applications”. The main aim of...

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