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New Filing Strategies Mandated by End of CPAs
Mondaq Business Briefing, October, 2003
Orignally published on July 15, 2003
Effective July 14, 2003, continued prosecution applications ("CPAs") are not available for utility and plant applications.1 Although the USPTO acknowledged that a request for continued examination ("RCE") is not a "complete equivalent" to filing a CPA, it gave as rationales for its decision to end most CPAs that they are "largely redundant" of RCEs, that CPAs were only a transitional practice for utility and plant applications filed before May 29, 2000, and that continued filing of CPAs would be both costly and inefficient for the USPTO. The USPTO's characterization of CPAs as "largely redundant" of RCEs understates the significant differences between CPAs and RCEs.
A CPA was a new application (and updated the filing...
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