<div dir="ltr">Thank you<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Feb 4, 2024 at 10:58 AM Dan Feigelson <<a href="mailto:djf@iliplaw.com">djf@iliplaw.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><img src="https://gcfagjf.r.af.d.sendibt2.com/tr/op/cqFl8ik7Rv8ICrf-cRnhlZj4E6350X1Hnuvt_XIzy7qNp2j2weh9yr_QDguliN0njFYwxSOvh7QDIs4WTZEXdhHRLqow5eWtMdKe0keUVq_v2Y7Y_u8IEIFaAqaIKyj87h3PIWah8Lrmt2-mBUaSZMAlzwqKIlbV5wT7C9zcgRIO7LrO0cq4zcDJ6YCu2FYDmjMmmMsGfqZyW7THzBeihHqgyA" width="1" height="1"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>David, sounds like a typo in the WOISA. If you send me the ISR, WOISA and IPRP, I'll call the Israel PTO tomorrow morning when it opens (it's now 6 PM here) and see if they can issue a corrected document that doesn't say "lack of unity of invention". But it seems to me that you're good to go anyway, seeing as how they didn't ask for extra fees and searched everything anyway.<br></div><div><br></div><div>Dan<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Feb 4, 2024 at 5:09 PM David Boundy via Pct <<a href="mailto:pct@oppedahl-lists.com" target="_blank">pct@oppedahl-lists.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Is there a unity of invention issue here, or not? I have about three weeks left in the 30-month PCT lifetime--what should I do? If I request corrected examination papers from ISA/IL, will ISA/IL does so, and if they do, does it buy me anything?</div><div><br></div><div>
PCT Art. 17(3)(a) says "If the ISA considers that the international application does not comply with the requirement of unity of invention as set forth in the Regulations, it <b>shall</b> invite the applicant to pay additional fees." <br></div><div><br></div><div>ISA/Israel didn't do what it "shall" do.<br></div><div> * August 2021: priority date, US provisional application<br></div><div> * August 2022: PCT application filed, ISA/IL, fewer than 20 claims all apparatus, two independent claims to legitimately different inventions<br></div><div> * December 2022, Search Report and Written Opinion:<br></div><div> -- the Written Opinion says the magic words "lacks unity of invention" but gives no explanation</div><div> -- neither the Written Opinion nor any other paper has ever invited payment of additional fees.</div><div> -- the Search Report searches all claims, the Written Opinion examines all claims<br></div><div> * December 2023: IPRP examines all claims, gives favorable novelty, inventive, industrial -- the only issue is a statement "no unity of invention" and still no invitation to pay additional fees
</div><div></div><div><br></div><div>Shoot. I should have noticed the incongruity in 2022, but I didn't challenge it then. Now what? Can I instruct my JP and EP colleagues to note that ISA/IL did not properly raise a unity problem, so the claims oughtta stay together? Do I have options in JP national / EP regional phase?<br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks<br></div><br>
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