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能做什么就尽量做喽,不行就放弃呗。
有的时候感觉审查员内心感到申请案是非显而易知,对他来说不是要不要驳回,而是如何驳回的问题。有一次审查员在second non-final的时候找了一个和上次驳回使用引证案更与本案不相关的less powerful的材料又将本案驳回,真是让人感到非常棘手。 有同感。申请的一件美国专利,审查员只找到一篇差异很大的对比文件,用下列语句驳回独立权利:
“Claims 1,xx and xx : xxx discloses ...(共48词,描述相同特征)
xxx does not disclose ...(共190词,本专利独立权利的新特征). It would have been obvious at the time the invention was made to a person having ordinary skill in the art to arrange the parts as necessary because rearrangement of parts is considered an obvious matter of design choice. (see In re Kuhle, 526 F.2d 553, 188 UAPQ 7 (CCPA 1975) (the particular placement of a contact in a conductivity measuring device was held to be an obvious matter of design choice.) in the present case, one of ordinary skill in the art could clearly arrange the prior art as desired to achieve the claimed limitation and not depart from the scope of the prior art. ”
此专利在中国一年前就被授权,并且被业界极看好。依据此专利在中国的经历,如果审查员只找到上面的对比文件,早就授权了。
一度失望和愤懑,但看过上面诸位的分享,发现有这么多相同经历的人,压力减少了很多。谢谢各位的分享。
如果按上面提到的那样,审查员都是讲道理的就好办了。上面有网友提到,权利项不做任何修改,答辩也能成功,审查员继续找对比文件和新的驳回理由,但是,这样的情况很常见吗?会不会因为指出审查员意见的错误,审查员更不高兴了,直接就final了? |