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<p>Which also brings a tangential question: when entering national
stage, I normally file an IDS citing all art known (including from
the ISR and/or IPRP) from the international application. However,
technically, these are the 'same' application -- I've had some
applicants push back on this. Does anybody have any insight on
whether it's <i>required </i>(assume the benefits have been
explained to the applicant, and they don't care whether it's
listed on the front of the application as being considered)? Based
on my reading of things, I think the answer is no, because the
USPTO is 'inheriting' the entire file wrapper from the IB,
including the ISR/IPEA documents and it's the same application.
I'm mainly looking whether there's some wrinkle of US law that I
haven't considered that might change this analysis.</p>
<p>Jamie, I normally file an IDS with all the prior art. I would
also be interested if anybody has had success getting examiners to
acknowledge prior art from parent applications without doing so.</p>
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With the new fees for the filing of an Information Disclosure
Statement (IDS) and previous guidance in the MPEP regarding
prior art submissions, please let me know if anyone is taking
steps to alert the patent examiner that the application
contains prior art references in a parent application. If so,
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Alternatively, in order to have the prior art listed on the
patent, Applicants could continue to file IDS in every
application. This will incur additional costs (time to prepare
the IDS and USPTO fees). However, this seems like the prudent
manner to fully ensure that the patent examiner has reviewed
the prior art in each application (short of some sort of an
acknowledgement by the examiner that all of the parent
application prior art has been considered.) I\u2019m just not
certain how to get the examiner\u2019s acknowledgement of review of
all previously cited prior art in one or more parent
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