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<font face="Times New Roman">Keep in mind there are similar 3rd
party submission procedures in the major offices. See for example
slides 2-9 in </font>"<a
href="https://www.neifeld.com/pubs/Neifeld_IEEE_10-19-2012.pdf"
target="_blank">Company Perspectives, Procedures and Best
Practices in View of the AIA</a>" Presented by Rick Neifeld at
IEEE-USA, Arlington, VA, October 19, 2012. <br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2/8/2024 2:46 PM, Doreen Trujillo
via Patentpractice wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"> not followed the success rate with these
things in terms of affecting prosecution. If you submit the
publications with an explanation of the relevance and the
claims get allowed anyway, you have probably made it harder
for your client to invalidate the patent based on those same
publications. And if you yourself appear as the attorney of
record on your client's own patents, then if you're the one
who makes the third-party submission, the competitor will be
able to more easily figure out who's behind the submission
(which doesn't need to identify the real-party-in-interest,
but only the party actually making the submission). So you
might want to consider having a different attorney make the
filing. Or, you can go the tried-and-true route of bringing
the publications to the attention of the applicant's attorney,
who will in all likelihood then want to disclose the pubs in
an IDS. The examiner make still allow the case, but there will
be no discussion in the record of the relevance, thus leaving
an easier path to make such arguments yourself in subsequent
adversarial proceedings.<o:p></o:p></p>
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