Legal Question in Intellectual Property in Massachusetts

Patents

How long does it really take to have one's patent request accepted?

Is there a way to make sure it is accepted initially instead of the initial rejection then a yearly dance till approved?


Asked on 8/25/07, 1:44 am

1 Answer from Attorneys

Michael Blake Law office of Michael A. Blake, Patent Attorney

Re: Patents

It completely depends on how busy the patent office. In order to increase the chances that it is accepted initially, one would have to write extremely narrow claims, that would probably be useless because they would be very easy to design around.

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Answered on 8/27/07, 9:38 am


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