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<p class="MsoNormal">> <span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">why not use the Summary to make it easier for the
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<p class="MsoNormal">Because of good brief writing. If you're arguing a dependent claim, the argument is going to be on page 40, after you're done with the independent claims. If you're arguing a dependent claim, you should consolidate all the relevant (and
helpful) facts, all the relevant (and helpful) law, and all the relevant (and helpful) application of law to facts. They should be together so you can present a logical and consolidated flow. It's much less helpful to put the claim interpretation/scope/support
on page 4, if the argument is at pages 40-44. If the spec is helpful in understanding the claim, then that discussion should be with the rest of the discussion of the issue you're presenting. If you have a 112(a) issue, then you should marshal the evidence
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 7:47<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">\u202f</span>AM Suzannah K. Sundby <<a href="mailto:suzannah@canadylortz.com">suzannah@canadylortz.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I guess the point I\u2019m trying to get at is IF a dependent claim does not stand or fall with its independent claim, then the subject
matter it claims is supposed to be patentably different from the independent claim\u2026 and therefore, it seems to me that that claimed subject matter should be summarized with a notation of its support in the specification.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I do see the argument/interpretation against requiring such\u2026
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">BUT why not use the Summary to make it easier for the
<span class="m-6532803244337892042spelle">APJs</span> to understand the applicant\u2019s interpretation/scope of the claims and help them with easily finding where support in the spec is rather than having to dig around on their own (assuming they are inclined)?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> Suzannah K. Sundby
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Was just writing my other post when yours sent\u2026 reiterated here with a slight modification (wrt your function point):</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<b><i><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Summary of claimed subject matter.</span></i></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> <u><span style="color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:yellow">A</span></u> concise explanation
of the subject matter defined in each of the rejected independent claims, which shall refer to the specification in the Record by page and line number or by paragraph number, and to the drawing, if any, by reference characters<u><span style="color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:yellow">.</span></u>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:yellow">(1)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> For each rejected independent claim</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:yellow">(2) ,
<u>and for each dependent claim argued separately</u> under the provisions of <a href="https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-37/section-41.37#p-41.37(c)(1)(iv)" target="_blank">paragraph (c)(1)(iv)</a> of this section,*</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:yellow">(3)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> if the claim contains a means plus function or step plus function recitation as permitted by <a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/link/uscode/35/112" target="_blank">35
U.S.C. 112(f)</a>, </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-color-alt:windowtext;background:yellow">then the</span></u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> concise explanation must identify the structure, material, or acts described in
the specification in the Record as corresponding to each claimed function with reference to the specification in the Record by page and line number or by paragraph number, and to the drawing, if any, by reference characters.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">* commas off-set the dependent claim requirement.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Wrt \u201ceach claimed function\u201d, I see that as meaning if a claim limitation has
<u>a</u> function, not necessarily a means+function\u2026 otherwise, why include a sentence about the requirement for independent claims again?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">OK.... As you've divided into (1) and (2), (1) and (2) are connected in the conjunctive (like limitations of a claim -- all must be satisfied in the conjunctive), not disjunctive.
The words " <span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">structure, material, or acts ... corresponding to each claimed function</span> " are pretty clearly directed to 112(f), no?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span class="m-6532803244337892042m-7455507448569001098spelle">dunno</span>\u2026 I read 37 CFR 41.37(c)(1)(iii) differently (annotated below<span class="m-6532803244337892042m-7455507448569001098grame">), and</span> thus think it\u2019s best to err on the side of caution.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> <b><i>Summary of claimed subject matter.</i></b> <u><span style="color:black;background:yellow">A</span></u> concise explanation of the subject matter defined in each of the rejected independent claims, which
shall refer to the specification in the Record by page and line number or by paragraph number, and to the drawing, if any, by reference characters<u><span style="color:black;background:yellow">.</span></u>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:yellow">(1)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> For each rejected independent claim,
<u><span style="color:black;background:yellow">and for each dependent claim argued separately</span></u> under the provisions of <a href="https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-37/section-41.37#p-41.37(c)(1)(iv)" target="_blank">paragraph (c)(1)(iv)</a> of this
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:yellow">(2)</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> if the claim contains a means plus function or step plus function recitation as permitted by <a href="https://www.govinfo.gov/link/uscode/35/112" target="_blank">35
U.S.C. 112(f)</a>, </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:yellow">then the</span></u><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> concise explanation must identify the structure, material, or acts described in the specification in the
Record as corresponding to each claimed function with reference to the specification in the Record by page and line number or by paragraph number, and to the drawing, if any, by reference characters.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Almost certainly, at the beginning of the section on the dependent claim, you lay out the relevant (and helpful) facts, as you would in any brief to any tribunal. But you do it
at the place and in the way it does the most good -- the section addressing the dependent claim.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">The question was "<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">must I summarize that dependent claim in the \u201cSUMMARY OF CLAIMED SUBJECT MATTER\u201d?</span> " The text of the reg
says "no," not in the Summary of Claimed Subject Matter.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I guess I\u2019ve always been too scared to follow the rules that way\u2026 I mean, if one must argue each claim separately to avoid standing
or falling together, seems to me that part of that is also itemizing the claimed subject matter separately as well.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">After all, it\u2019s pretty easy to do with dependent claims, especially dependent claims are substantially in their originally presented
form.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">The question, at least as I interpreted it, was about the Summary.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Yes, you have to separately argue the dependent claim, and you have to state that you're separately arguing it. But you don't have to do the "specification by page and line number,
and figure references" for dependent claims, except 112(f) limitations.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 5:52<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">\u202f</span>AM Suzannah K. Sundby <<a href="mailto:suzannah@canadylortz.com" target="_blank">suzannah@canadylortz.com</a>>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Wait, I thought even if a dependent claim (including non-112(f) claims) one must separately argue each claim, i.e., recite in the
summary of the claimed subject matter, or else the claim stands or falls with the others (i.e., the claim it depends on)\u2026</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;text-align:start"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#7C869A">P.O. Box 590638, Newton, MA 02459</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p style="margin:0in;text-align:start"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#7C869A">P.O. Box 590638, Newton, MA 02459</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#323130"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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