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Best Practices In Examination

Training:  Awareness Workshop

Best Practices in Compact Prosecution (2009)
Training:  Interview Practice Effective Interview Practice (2009)
Computer-related inventions and Business methods

Training:  Rejection: 35 USC 103 - Obviousness

Formulating and Communicating Rejections under 35 U.S.C. 103 for Applications Directed to Computer-Implemented Business Method Inventions (2000)

Training:  5 case samples

Training Materials Directed To Business, Artificial Intelligence, And Mathematical Processing Applications (1998)
 35 U.S.C. 101 - Subject Matter Eligibility

August 2009:  Examination Instructions, Interim

Interim Patent Subject Matter Eligibility Training Materials (2009) [PDF]
 35 U.S.C. 101 - Utility

Training:  Examination guide, interim

Revised Interim Utility Guidelines Training Materials (1999) [PDF]

Training:  Business methods, AI, Mathematical processing

Training Materials Directed To Business, Artificial Intelligence, And Mathematical Processing Applications (1998)
 35 U.S.C. 103 - Obviousness

Training:  KSR 

Examination Training Materials in view of KSR Int'l Co. v. Teleflex Inc., 550 U.S. 398, 82 USPQ2d 1385 (2007)

Rejections:  Computer-implemented business methods

Formulating and Communicating Rejections under 35 U.S.C. 103 for Applications Directed to Computer-Implemented Business Method Inventions (2000)

Training:  Product & process claims In re Brouwer and In re Ochiai

Training Materials for Treatment of Product and Process Claims in Light of In re Brouwer and In re Ochiai and 35 U.S.C. 103(b)(1996)
 35 U.S.C. 112, First Paragraph - Written Description

Training:  Written Description

Written Description Guidelines Training Materials (2008) [PDF]

Training:  Enablement Chemical/Biotechnical

Training Materials for Examining Patent Applications with Respect to 35 U.S.C. Section § 112, First Paragraph - Enablement Chemical/Biotechnical Applications (1996)
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