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Article: USPTO Warns Applicants Of Outsourcing Patent Application Preparation.(United States Patent & Trademark Office)
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- Mondaq Business Briefing
- Article date:
- September 15, 2008
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On July 23, 2008, the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO) published a notice in the Federal Register, stating that it may be illegal to outsource invention information to a foreign country for the purposes of preparing a patent application to be filed in the United States. In the notice, the USPTO reminded applicants and registered patent practitioners that exporting subject matter abroad in compliance with a valid foreign filing license is limited only to preparing, filing and prosecuting a foreign patent application and not to preparing, filing and prosecuting a U.S. patent application. As such, the USPTO advised applicants wishing to export ...