On 7/22/19 12:18 PM, Henrik Levkowetz wrote:
- However, it seems prudent to point out that the person doing the disclosure
may well be the best person on the planet to actually be able to ferret
out which patent is the applicable one; anybody else trying to use
incomplete form information to identify the right patent could find it
impossible.
I would not want to put that responsibility on a third-party filer,
though. Sometimes there are multiple patent applications, in one or
more countries, covering a single invention. Sometimes patent
applications sit in various stages of approval for months or years
before any patents are issued (or not).
Keith
