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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><b>Aside from the admin issues, this is a classic case of one different letter making a different compound in organic chemical nomenclature. </b></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><b>James K. Poole, Esq.</b></div><div><br></div>
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On Tuesday, April 30, 2024 at 05:02:59 AM MDT, David Boundy via Patentcenter <patentcenter@oppedahl-lists.com> wrote:
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<div><div id="ydp378c1dbayiv5903984470"><div><div><div>Theyve been editing / uniforming priority references for decades. If you think about it, they kind of have to. I long ago adopted the practice of using their conventions in my specifications so my proofreading would be easy.</div><div><br clear="none"></div><div>changing the chemical names -- thats another whole thing.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div id="ydp378c1dbayiv5903984470yqt31454" class="ydp378c1dbayiv5903984470yqt7246030093"><div class="ydp378c1dbayiv5903984470gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="ydp378c1dbayiv5903984470gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 29, 2024, 11:48 PM Gerry Peters via Patentcenter <<a shape="rect" href="mailto:patentcenter@oppedahl-lists.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">patentcenter@oppedahl-lists.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none"></div><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;" class="ydp378c1dbayiv5903984470gmail_quote">Looking at a recent published US patent application, I happened to see<br clear="none">
an obvious typo that was the fault of the PTO (filed app said<br clear="none">
"polyamide (PA)" but PTO printed this as "polyimide (PA)").<br clear="none">
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This prompted me to look a bit more closely, upon which I noted that,<br clear="none">
at the first two paragraphs of this particular spec (Cross-Reference to<br clear="none">
Related Apps; Statement Under 37 CFR 1.77(b)(6)), the PTO has freely<br clear="none">
abbreviated months of dates that were written in longhand as filed and<br clear="none">
has made multiple "helpful" insertions such as "Ser.", presumably so<br clear="none">
that the reader will know that application numbers and patent numbers<br clear="none">
listed in the spec are in fact serial numbers as opposed to some other<br clear="none">
sort of number.<br clear="none">
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My point is not to argue whether the PTO's alterations and insertions<br clear="none">
are helpful or unhelpful (changing polyamide to polyimide was decidedly<br clear="none">
unhelpful), but to point out that the PTO appears to experimenting with<br clear="none">
some sort of AI that is casually altering the text of what was filed in<br clear="none">
ways that at least I have not previously seen. <br clear="none">
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This strikes me as major shift in the seriousness, vel non, with<br clear="none">
which the PTO views its duty to preserve and publish an accurate<br clear="none">
record of what was actually filed.<br clear="none">
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When combined with the DOCX issue, this also places a further<br clear="none">
unjustified burden on the practitioner who now needs to proofread the<br clear="none">
PTO's work at multiple stages during filing and prosecution.<br clear="none">
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