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A patent or patent application can be abandoned at multiple points during its lifetime. Often, this abandonment is strategic. Gaining and maintaining a patent is expensive; if the commercial potential is not enough to cover USPTO fees and legal expenses, a patent may be abandoned.
WITHDRAWAL OF PATENT APPLICATION - In case an applicant does not wish to publish the application then a request must be filed at the Indian patent office for the withdrawal of the application within 15 months of the date of priority or date of filing, whichever is earlier.
If the applicant wishes to have an application withdrawn from issue, he or she must petition the Director under 37 CFR 1.313(a) or file a request for continued examination (RCE) under 37 CFR 1.114 with a submission and the fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(e).
Applicants considering filing an RCE after payment of the issue fee are strongly cautioned to call the Office of Petitions to: (1) determine whether sufficient time remains before the patent issue date to consider (and grant) a petition, and (2) what steps are needed to ensure that a grantable petition is before an ...