Certificate Course on Preparing Responses to US Office Actions

Certificate Course on Preparing Responses to US Office Actions

Course Conducted by
Tarun Khurana, Partner & Patent Attorney (K&K)

Khurana & Khurana and IIPRD have put together a water-tight 3 Hour Core Course on Best Practices for Preparing Responses to US Office Actions, which would help very comprehensively, and only through real-life examples, focus on how Responses to US Office Actions can be prepared, including but not limited to:

• Help Understand how and when Claims and Specification are to be amended in view of the cited prior art references
• Help Understand how to specifically respond to 102, 103, and especially 101 objections
• Help Understand how to conduct Examiner Interviews to help keep the costs low for Clients
• Help Understand how to approach the Office Action response to complete the exercise in 1 Days’ time frame
• Help Understand the kind of expressions/language to be written while responding to the office actions
• Help Understand how to approach overall prosecution in the US and when to conduct Examiner Interviews
• Help Understand how to handle issues pertaining to Restriction Requirements, Double Patenting, and Terminal Disclaimers
• Lastly, help understand how to work efficiently with the US Counsel(s) to keep the costs low for the clients.

The Course is not only intended for Professionals who are currently doing Prosecution (US, India or otherwise), but is also equally relevant for Colleagues that are working in other areas of the IP/Patent Domain, and either don’t focus on Patent Prosecution at all, or wish to upgrade their skill in how stronger responses to Office Actions can be drafted/prepared in minimum time duration.

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