When does an application’s status as ‘allowed’ begin and end?
The status of an application as ‘allowed’ has a specific timeframe. According to the MPEP: “Its status as an ‘allowed’ application continues from the date of the notice of allowance until it issues as a patent, unless it is withdrawn from issue ( 37 CFR 1.313 ), or becomes abandoned for failure to pay the…
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If an inventor dies after filing a patent application but before the patent is granted, the process can still continue. According to 37 CFR 1.42 (pre-AIA): “Where the inventor dies during the time intervening between the filing of the application and the granting of a patent thereon, the letters patent may be issued to the…
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