Longacre Patent Bar Review

Incorporation by Reference

Think eating your cake and having it too. That’s incorporation by reference. You want to include as much disclosure in your application as you reasonably can without annoying the examiner and judge who may eventually decide the fate of this application. The more disclosure, the more likely the claims will be interpreted broadly and will [...]

The attorney who prepared the application you are now prosecuting was not very good at grammar or spelling. You want to file a preliminary amendment cleaning up the specification, without of course adding any of that dread new matter. Can you do that and, if so, how? It’s easy. It used to be the case [...]