Keith Fredlake will speak on the panel “Secondary Considerations And The Art Of Responding To Obviousness Rejections” for the Replay of Patent Prosecution & Portfolio Management 2023 Panels. Keith will focus his discussion on responding to obviousness rejections and convincing examiners there is more to the claimed invention than the sum of its parts. He will explore the following:
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Specific requirements examiners must satisfy in order to rely on each of the KSR rationales;
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The most common obviousness rejections and how to handle them;
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How best to establish a nexus between objective evidence of nonobviousness (i.e., secondary considerations) and the claimed invention; and
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Tips for successfully working with patent examiners to convince them to issue patent claims.
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