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October 28, 2014

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I've got $10 that says the PTO screws this up.

I very much hope not. We should see the revised guidance in November and it is believed from what was said at the AIPLA meeting that the USPTO staff are well aware that the present guidance needs making narrower.

However, publishing the new guidance as a draft and revising it in accordance with public comments would be an efficient and democratic process. Delivering new guidance from on high and inviting a repetition of the present lengthy process would be fundamentally autocratic. It is greatly to be hoped that the USPTO will adopt the democratic route, with perhaps a proviso that the revised guidance will apply in the interim until the version to be adopted is finally settled.

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