Model Patent Prosecution Templates
AIPLA's Patent Law Committee maintains a collection of sample documents related to day-to-day patent prosecution. These documents are exemplary and may not be ideal for every situation. Use them at your own risk.*
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Model Response Shells:
Each of these documents contains a comprehensive shell document that can be used to formulate a response to 35 U.S.C. 112, 102, 103, or 101 rejections made by a patent examiner during prosecution.
Model Appeal Brief: (Doc) (PDF)
This document contains the overall structure of appeal brief with a section for drafting responses to point out error in rejections made in 35 U.S.C. 112, 102, 103, 101, and obviousness-type double patenting rejections. The model appeal brief includes summaries of the relevant portions of the PTAB’s designated informative and precedential decisions applicable to ex parte appeals along with associated Federal Circuit case law.
Model Reply Brief: (Doc) (PDF)
This document contains the overall structure of a reply brief along with relevant case law summaries to use for handling new grounds of rejection in an Examiner’s Answer.
*Nothing included in these sample documents or elsewhere on this site should be considered legal advise on the part of AIPLA or any of its members.
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Please join AIPLA’s Committees for Patent and Trademark Relations with the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) on January 13, 2025, to discuss the USPTO fee schedule, which will take effect on January 18 (trademark fees) and January 19 (patent fees), 2025. During the webinar, we will provide an overview of the fee increases and discuss a number of changes associated with the fee schedule. For instance, on the patent side, we will discuss the 7.5% across-the-board increase in fees, as well as fees associated with timing thresholds for continuing applications, and on the trademark side, we will detail the various fee increases and address new fees including the insufficient information fee and free-form text box fee.
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