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<div dir="auto">Waitaminit. Wasn't there a change several years ago permitting the Inventors Declaration to be filed as late as the issue fee payment?</div>
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<div dir="auto">What am I missing as to your scenario?</div>
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<div>From: Carl Oppedahl via Patentpractice <patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com> </div>
<div>Date: 5/21/24 3:17 PM (GMT-06:00) </div>
<div>To: "For patent practitioners. This is not for laypersons to seek legal advice." <patentpractice@oppedahl-lists.com>
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<div>Cc: Carl Oppedahl <carl@oppedahl.com> </div>
<div>Subject: Re: [Patentpractice] Am I losing my mind? </div>
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<p>I wonder if you are getting the inventor declaration mixed up with the certified copy of the priority application.</p>
<p>When you file a CIP or divisional or continuation, you get a free pass on having to provide a certified copy of the priority application, if it was already provided in the parent case. The Examiner is required to go on a treasure hunt to see whether the
certified copy can be found in the parent case.</p>
<p>There is no such free pass for inventor declarations. Why it is different for one thing and the other, I don't know.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 5/21/2024 1:08 PM, Richard Straussman via Patentpractice wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite">All,<br>
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I filed a continuation (not a CIP or divisional) off of an allowed parent application. We did not file a copy of the declaration from the parent application, as I have never done so before. We have now received a Notice of Missing Parts because no declaration
was filed with the application. I know that we can file it per MPEP 602.05 (and maybe it is better practice to do so), but I am not aware of a requirement in that regard. Am I wrong? Or is the PTO entirely off base?<br>
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