Wysebridge Patent Bar Academy | Drew | Activity https://wysebridge.com/patent-bar-academy/members/smithdrewsmith/activity/ Activity feed for Drew. Mon, 27 Apr 2026 13:13:42 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.7.10 en-US 30 hourly 2 984ffeb2ebdbba2b2308ecae14ec2e99 Drew started the discussion An applicant decides to raise an exception to prior art under AIA U.S.C. 102(b). What is the proper mechanism for challenging a prior art citation? in the forum FITF https://wysebridge.com/patent-bar-academy/forums/forum/practice-questions-and-categories/fitf/ Mon, 18 Aug 2025 03:09:56 +0000 An applicant decides to raise an exception to prior art under AIA U.S.C. 102(b). What is the proper mechanism for challenging a prior art citation?

Is “File a motion” the correct wording here? I thought it would be an affidavit/declaration under rule 130.

]]> c983ef02a5a4c409eca429850823d25b Drew started the discussion Two inventors filed a patent application. However, following the submission, but before allowance, both inventors die. What will happen to the application? in the forum 400 https://wysebridge.com/patent-bar-academy/forums/forum/practice-questions-and-categories/400-2/ Sun, 17 Aug 2025 22:53:08 +0000 Two inventors filed a patent application. However, following the submission, but before allowance, both inventors die. What will happen to the application?

Who paid the issue fee? How can an application which we only know has been filed, make it all the way to issue without someone intervening? Even if the application was perfect and immediately allowed, if the inventors are dead how did it not go abandoned for failure to timely pay the issue fee?

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