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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="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">A</span></u> concise explanation of the subject
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">(1) [,
<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><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">* commas off-set the dependent claim requirement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">I dunno\u2026 I read
</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">37 CFR 41.37(c)(1)(iii) differently (annotated below), and thus think it\u2019s best to err on the side of caution.</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><o:p></o:p></span></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="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">A</span></u> concise explanation of the subject matter defined in each of the rejected independent claims,
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<b>To:</b> Suzannah K. Sundby <<a href="mailto:suzannah@canadylortz.com">suzannah@canadylortz.com</a>><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">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">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">On Mon, Mar 17, 2025 at 6:46<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 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
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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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<u>dependent </u>claim, must I summarize that dependent claim in the \u201cSUMMARY OF CLAIMED SUBJECT MATTER\u201d?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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37 CFR 41.37(c)(1)(iii</a>) [reproduced below] only require summary of the dependent claims that use MPF or Step-plus-function language?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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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. For each rejected independent claim,
and for each dependent claim argued separately 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, if the claim contains a means plus function or
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