Exam Questions

Q) Foreign Patents (4.02.50a)

September 4, 2008

50. Which of the following is not required in order for a foreign application that has matured into a foreign patent to qualify as a reference under 35 U.S.C. § 102(d)? (A) The foreign application must have actually been published before the filing of an application in the United States, but the patent rights granted […]

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Q) Signing Inventors (4.02.44a)

September 4, 2008

44. An amendment filed in January 8, 2002, in an unassigned nonprovisional application seeks to cancel claims so that fewer than all of the currently named inventors are the actual inventors of the invention being claimed. The amendment includes a request to delete the names of the persons who are not inventors. In accordance with […]

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Q) Johnnie and Floor Tile (4.02.32a)

September 4, 2008

32. Johnnie owns a supermarket store in Cleveland, Ohio, and is constantly frustrated when little children drop their chewing gum on Johnnie’s clean floor in the supermarket. In her spare time, Johnnie develops an entirely novel type of coating material that she applies to floor tile. The coating material resists adhesion to chewing gum. In […]

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Q) Mr. Brick (4.02.24a)

September 4, 2008

24. Mr. Brick, the inventor, files an application with the USPTO on January 2, 2001 containing a single claim for his invention: a new bouncing ball called “Y”. Brick receives a first Office action dated June 4, 2001 from the primary examiner handling Brick’s application. The examiner rejected Brick’s claim only under 35 U.S.C. § […]

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Q) 37 CFR 1.8 and 1.10 (4.02.16a)

September 4, 2008

16. Jill, a registered patent agent, receives a Notice of Allowance from the USPTO with a mail date of November 13, 2001, regarding a utility patent application for an improved garden hose which she had filed on behalf of one of her small entity clients. The Notice of Allowance specifies a sum that must be […]

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Q) 35 USC 102(e) (4.02.11a)

September 4, 2008

Recent test takers report question #11 from the April 2002 (am) exam is in the Patent Bar database of tested questions. Questions 11 and 12 are based on the following factual background. Consider questions 11 and 12 independently of each other. Applicant files a patent application in Japan on February 28, 1996. Applicant files a […]

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