Foreign patent traps
Outside of the US, foreign patent offices will often use your own prior patent filings against you! Avoid this trap by planning carefully.
Stephen E. Zweig, PhD JD, Patent Attorney
Outside of the US, foreign patent offices will often use your own prior patent filings against you! Avoid this trap by planning carefully.
The USPTO can combine an absurdly large number of citations in obviousness rejections. The reasoning for this is based on a now obsolete court decision.