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Maier & Maier was established with the goal of providing intellectual property analysis and advice for large, multi-national corporations, universities, middle-market and emerging market companies, and startups and spinouts. We are proud of our ability to advise our clients, and to obtain patent protection for a wide scale of technologies, and offer years of experience in litigation, licensing, and other intellectual property-related issues.

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SMEDs: A Practitioner’s Best Tool for § 101?

Director Squires issued a memorandum late September on Subject Matter Eligibility Declarations (SMEDs) that continues a series of memos on the subject. Two flowcharts on when and how examiners should consider SMEDs were issued alongside the memo. The memo begins by summarizing the previous changes Direction Squires has made to USPTO policies on § 101 […]

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USPTO Announces new PIER Pilot Program

The USPTO announced a new PCT Informed Examination Request (PIER) pilot program for 371 national stage applications. Under this pilot PIER program, the USPTO will issue a requirement for information (PIER RFI) in selected 371 applications. The USPTO will not accept requests to opt out of the PIER pilot program. The PIER RFI will require the applicant […]

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Patent Term Adjustment After Twenty-Five Years*

I.       BACKGROUND A. Twenty-Year Patent Term: Section 532(a) of the Uruguay Round Agreements Act (URAA)[1] amended 35 U.S.C. § 154 to provide that the term of a U.S. patent applied for on or after June 8, 1995 begins on its date of issue and ends on the date that is twenty years from the […]

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