In this episode of the Examining Patents Podcast Series, Stephanie Schonewald and Michael Shinall discuss issues impacting compliance with Article 4 of the Paris Convention, a critical provision for establishing and maintaining the priority date of your patent application. We revisit how the provisions of Article 4 work, and how to avoid potential missteps that could lead to losing a priority claim entirely.

In this episode of the Examining Patents Podcast Series, Rolando Medina and Dan Klein provide a detailed summary of the USPTO’s new fee requirement based on Information Disclosure Statement (IDS) size, which went into effect on January 19, 2025.

In this episode of Choate’s Examining Patents podcast series, Kristen Buteau and Stephanie Schonewald discuss obviousness-type double patenting (ODP) rejections issued by the USPTO based on the claims of later-filed, later-expiring unrelated patents and review a recent ex parte appeal case that addresses such rejections.