Comments on: Q) Declassified Reference (4.00.34a)

By: Potential

Potential — Sat, 19 May 2012 21:03:34 +0000

John White says about 102(a) as: Somebody else did it before you did it. So, someone else invented something before you did, although it was not published to public, but the invention prior to your invention is an actual existence.

By: TheGhostOfBilski

TheGhostOfBilski — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 18:00:25 +0000

RT: My understanding is that yes, the index will appear as one of the Appendices PDFs accessible on the exam. That said, i’s usefulness as a tool to timely locate information is limited.

By: RT

RT — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 17:47:48 +0000

Agreed nice tip on index.

Question however, does the index appear on the MPEP available during prometric exam?

(Note: my version of Acrobat shows the MPEP in a more usable form than is at Prometric. I’m running Adobe Acr 9 and Prometric uses 5.)

By: Sol

Sol — Mon, 26 Mar 2012 05:03:33 +0000

Studier, nice tip on search index.

By: studier

studier — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 00:09:28 +0000

Note — in searching for this answer, I thought it may be in chapter 900 (Prior Art), but I couldn’t find it.

The Lesson — use the index! I searched for “declassified” in the index. First hit showed that the information was in Chapter 700 (not a bad place to look for anything, but using the index was faster — leads you to the exact section of Ch. 700).

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 18:26:14 +0000

Because this anticipation is being based on prior knowledge, not publication.

By: Megan

Megan — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:10:01 +0000

this is kind of interesting as I remembered in John’s audio, he mentioned the shelfing date/distributing the general public date. Why is this different?