[Patentpractice] Information Disclosure Statement (IDS) filings in Divisional or Continuation Applications

[Jamie Sheridan]

Listserv Members -

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, can you share a copy of the filing template to alert the patent examiner?

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’m just not certain how to get the examiner’s acknowledgement of review of all previously cited prior art in one or more parent application.

Thoughts? Suggestions?


Thank you.



All the best,

-- Jamie



James A. Sheridan | Registered Patent Attorney | Member Manager | Sheridan Law LLC

14143 Denver West Parkway, Suite 100 | Golden, CO 80401 | T: 303-953-9083 x101 | F: 720-548-9810

jsheridan at sheridanlaw.com<mailto:jsheridan at sheridanlaw.com> | www.sheridanlaw.com<http://www.sheridanlaw.com> | Connect on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jamiesheridan<http://www.linkedin.com/in/jamiesheridan>



[signature_2050086367]


-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://oppedahl-lists.com/pipermail/patentpractice_oppedahl-lists.com/attachments/20250918/bdc476ef/attachment.html>
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: image001.png
Type: image/png
Size: 224173 bytes
Desc: image001.png
URL: <http://oppedahl-lists.com/pipermail/patentpractice_oppedahl-lists.com/attachments/20250918/bdc476ef/attachment.png>