Comments on Access to Relevant Prior Art Initiative
March 8, 2019
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AIPLA applauds the Office for working to reduce the burden on applicants filing a continuation application by automatically importing citations from the immediate parent application into continuing application and for creating a mechanism to document references filed in a parent application which have received consideration by the Examiner in the continuing application. While we received many positive comments on this initiative, we have a few suggestions on how it might be improved.
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