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| 八卷五期 89年03月16日 |
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Patent-of-Addition Applicants Given Opportunity to Appeal |
| On 20 December 1999, the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) revised a provision of the Patent Examination Standards to give patents-of-addition applicants an opportunity to respond to proposed rejections. Chapter 6, Section 3, Page 1-6-21 was revised to require the IPO to issue written notifications to applicants requesting responses within specified time periods concerning proposed rejections of patent-of-addition applications on the grounds that they do not satisfy the requirements of Paragraph 2 of Article 28 of the Patent Law. Paragraph 2 of Article 28 requires that patents-of-addition be reinventions which are accomplished by using the major technical contents of the original patents. The original regulation in the Patent Examination Standards did not provide applicants an opportunity to respond to such rejections. |
