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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi All,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For those of us practicing for a while, I imagine you’re accustomed to seeing strikethrough language in USPTO Office Actions proposing ID amendments. I’ve noticed a growing trend in Office Actions where language is not shown in strikethrough,
and sometimes language just appears to be missing. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I received an Office Action recently where 4 substantial phrases from a multi-class ID were not in the Examiner’s proposed ID revisions or otherwise referenced in the Office Action. It was unclear to me whether this was an accidental oversight,
so I contacted the Examiner for clarity. In this process, I learned that the USPTO lifted its writing requirements, meaning that Examiner’s are
<i>no longer</i> required to provide a detailed written explanation for why each portion of an ID needs amendment, and can just delete language they view as unnecessary, overbroad, or indefinite (instead of proposing such language be clarified).
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<p class="MsoNormal">So, warning, review ID amendments CLOSELY (if we weren’t all doing that already).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#385623;mso-ligatures:none">Katie Markert<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Partner<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#385623;mso-ligatures:none">Markert & Cominolli PLLC<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#385623;mso-ligatures:none">Phone:</span></b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#385623;mso-ligatures:none">
</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">585-504-2507 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#385623;mso-ligatures:none">Email:</span></b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#385623;mso-ligatures:none">
</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="mailto:km@markertcominolli.com"><span style="color:#0563C1">km@markertcominolli.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:8.0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="http://www.markertcominolli.com/"><span style="color:#0563C1">www.markertcominolli.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:8.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">75 S. Clinton Ave., Suite 510, Rochester, NY 14604<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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