Mark Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My friend who is a patent attorney finally responded to my questions > re: submitting prior art.
Thanks Mark, I appreciate this. >>Summed up: you pay $180 plus you have to serve it upon the >>applicant's attorney, which will cost a few dollars, too. I guess what I don't understand, is why *I* have to do this. Shouldn't it be the patent investigator's job to discover prior art like TMDA while investigating this application? I was hoping to just nod that investigator in that direction, not get involved in a legal ordeal. >>Regarding whether your submission is prior art or not, it better >>have been publicly distributed prior to May 15, 2001, the filing >>date. It was. TMDA was first released to the public on April 22, 2001. _________________________________________________ tmda-workers mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-workers
