An office action is an official letter sent by the Patent Office. In the letter, the examiner seeks additional information, amendments of claims, resubmitting of drawings etc. After filing the examination of your filed utility non-provisional patent application or National Phase of PCT Application, an assigned patent examiner will examine, review and determine novel aspect and industrial applicability of invention as per country law. If examiner finds any defaults or reasons to reject your patent application, what he issues, called Office Action. In the maximum cases, the first Office Action in a patent application would be centric around the claims.

Office Actions are fairly common and you should expect at least one Office Action especially for utility patent applications.

There are different types of Office Action & the Responses

We have inhouse team of experts, specialised on multiple technology domains. We review and understand the technicality of rejection points cited in the letter. Then we prepare the response as per the restriction requirement, drawing issues, claim issues relating to antecedent basis, specification issues or any other things may require to over the objection.

We assign attorneys who have significant experience working for the firm for a significant period of time. What this means to you is that you won’t have a new attorney working on your case each year. Rather, one attorney will be working on your case file generally for the entire prosecution history of that case file and they will be in discussion with you, unless we complete drafting.