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Patent Drafting Without Section 112 Errors

Patent Drafting Without Section 112 Errors
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As noted by Judge Newman “there are few, if any, legal documents more difficult to craft, more fraught with pitfalls than patent applications.” In this post we go over various drafting errors that could raise 35 U.S.C. 112 issues during litigation and discuss how to avoid them.

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10 Hidden ClaimMaster Features That Will Improve Your Efficiency

10 Hidden ClaimMaster Features That Will Improve Your Efficiency
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ClaimMaster features have grown steadily over the years and we’ve occasionally added features to address specific user requests. Some of these helpful ClaimMaster features might not be well-known to the casual users, so we’ll highlight them in this post to hopefully help you work a little more efficiently with our patent proofreading and patent drafting tools.

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Conversion of the USPTO Amendments to Track Changes

Conversion of the USPTO Amendments to Track Changes
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ClaimMaster has a helpful feature for converting Word’s Track Changes to the USPTO amendment formatting (i.e., underline, strikethrough). We’ve also been receiving occasional requests to add a mirror feature that would converting the USPTO amendment

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ClaimMaster Document Manager

ClaimMaster Document Manager
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The latest version of ClaimMaster (2020.0.0) includes a helpful tool for tracking all documents downloaded or generated with ClaimMaster. These documents include, for example, various downloads from the USPTO/EPO, proofreading reports, filled-out IDS forms, and

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Miscellaneous Improvements

Miscellaneous Improvements
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ClaimMaster 2020 includes many small, but helpful improvements to the software. Some of these improvements are outlined below. Specifying Client Matter ID ClaimMaster now lets you associate client matter id with proofreading reports, document downloads,

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Downloading Improvements

Downloading Improvements
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The new version of ClaimMaster includes several improvements to the patent and file wrapper downloading features. Downloading front pages of the foreign IDS references When submitting IDS forms, you may also need to submit English

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Improved Bibliographic Features

Improved Bibliographic Features
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New PEDS Integration As you probably noticed, Public PAIR has not been particularly stable or reliable lately. In addition, the USPTO recently removed Private PAIR access to applications not listed under the same customer number.

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