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February 6, 2010PatentUSPTO DirectorJonathan Hummel

PTO Director Kappos has two interesting recent posts on his blog:

  1. Reengineering the MPEP (Asking for suggestions on improving the MPEP and questioning whether it should be developed as a WIKI).
  2. Thanks Patent Team (Anecdotes from practitioners that patent examiners are doing a better job of suggesting amendments that lead to allowance).

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