What information about an unpublished patent application can be given over the phone?
MPEP 101 specifies the following procedure that should be followed before giving any information about an unpublished pending or abandoned patent application over the telephone: Obtain the caller’s full name, the application number, and the caller’s telephone number. Ask if there is an attorney or agent of record. Verify the identity of the caller and…
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According to MPEP 101, particular care must be taken when a caller requests the publication date or issue date assigned to a pending patent application: “If the publication or issue date is later than the current date (i.e., the date of the request), such information may be given only to the applicant, an inventor, the…
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