Appeals to the Board - When and How

In the best of all possible worlds, the successful patent attorney would have no knowledge or experience with appeals in the Patent Office. Examiners and attorneys would interact as colleagues until they found a common ground that gave the applicant exactly the claims he or she was entitled to get, nothing more and nothing less. In fact, a clever attorney can in almost every instance get from the examiner any claims likely to be obtained from the Board of Appeals, or so say many successful attorneys. But no matter how good you are at interacting with examiners, at least occasionally you are going to disagree on something important with an examiner, and appeal. There are a lot of tricks of the trade and we share them.

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