[Patentcenter] Published version of us patent applications no longer identical to what was filed (experimental use of AI at PTO)?

[David Boundy]

Theyve been editing / uniforming priority references for decades.  If you
think about it, they kind of have to.  I long ago adopted the practice of
using their conventions in my specifications so my proofreading would be
easy.

changing the chemical names -- thats another whole thing.

On Mon, Apr 29, 2024, 11:48 PM Gerry Peters via Patentcenter <
patentcenter at oppedahl-lists.com> wrote:

> Looking at a recent published US patent application, I happened to see
> an obvious typo that was the fault of the PTO (filed app said
> "polyamide (PA)" but PTO printed this as "polyimide (PA)").
>
> This prompted me to look a bit more closely, upon which I noted that,
> at the first two paragraphs of this particular spec (Cross-Reference to
> Related Apps; Statement Under 37 CFR 1.77(b)(6)), the PTO has freely
> abbreviated months of dates that were written in longhand as filed and
> has made multiple "helpful" insertions such as "Ser.", presumably so
> that the reader will know that application numbers and patent numbers
> listed in the spec are in fact serial numbers as opposed to some other
> sort of number.
>
> My point is not to argue whether the PTO's alterations and insertions
> are helpful or unhelpful (changing polyamide to polyimide was decidedly
> unhelpful), but to point out that the PTO appears to experimenting with
> some sort of AI that is casually altering the text of what was filed in
> ways that at least I have not previously seen.
>
> This strikes me as major shift in the seriousness, vel non, with
> which the PTO views its duty to preserve and publish an accurate
> record of what was actually filed.
>
> When combined with the DOCX issue, this also places a further
> unjustified burden on the practitioner who now needs to proofread the
> PTO's work at multiple stages during filing and prosecution.
>
> ---Gerry
>
> Gerry Peters
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