The Intellectual Property Owners Association (IPO) will offer a one-hour webinar entitled "USPTO's After Final Consideration Pilot: Tips to Reach Allowance" on November 19, 2015 from 2:00 to 3:00 pm (ET). Tariq Hafiz of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office; David Longo of Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.; and Eli Loots of Knobbe, Martens, Olson & Bear, LLP will discuss which cases are best suited to the After Final Consideration Pilot (AFCP) and which are not, giving real-life examples of successful cases that passed through the program and others that failed. The panel will also discuss another recently-extended USPTO program aimed at the later stages of prosecution, the Quick Path Information Disclosure Statement (QPIDS) program, which can let an applicant file an IDS after the issue fee is paid without paying for reopening prosecution through an RCE.
The registration fee for the webinar is $130 (government and academic rates are available upon request). Those interested in registering for the webinar can do so here.
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