Patent Prosecution Services are usually one of these three activities: [1] representing a patent application through examination (responding to office actions), [2] appealing an examination decision, or [3] conducting opposition, reissue, or reexamination proceedings.
Tag: Patent Prosecution
Patent Prosecution is representing the invention’s patent application before the USPTO. It is also called patent representation.Patent Prosecution is the conducting of communications with the USPTO regarding the examination of a patent application, or a patent.
It is most frequently things like, letters to address any rejections or objections made regarding a patent application, amendments to add new or revised claims, or the conducting of examiner interviews. It also includes submitting and processing other patenting actions such as: Protests, Citation of Prior Art, Ex-Parte and Inter Partes Reexamination, and Supplemental Examination.