The patent office is about to make bad patents untouchable

HPsquared 5 hours ago|

Ah, more IP sclerosis. Great.

WhyUVoteGarbage 4 hours ago|

The deadline for comments was November 17.

iamnothere 4 hours ago|

It’s December 2 as explained in the article and the page on regulations.gov. Where do you see Nov 17?

johnea 4 hours ago||

Via the link in the article to: Revision to Rules of Practice Before the Patent Trial and Appeal Board

It would be nice to have some confirmation, but I'm assuming there was an extension.

Given that EFF and the comment form at regulations.gov cite Dec 2nd.

In any case, I'm filing my comment now, and encouraging others to do so as well.

Anyone who's ever been through any kind of patent process should understand just how egregious this is...

greensoap 3 hours ago||

There was an extension. I don't have link handy, but an extra 15 days were provided.