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File a Request for Reinstatement form. File your request for reinstatement no later than two months after the issue date of your Notice of Abandonment. If you didn't receive a Notice of Abandonment, file within two months of learning of the abandonment, but no later than six months after the abandonment date in TSDR.

Revival of the abandoned application is easier if a petition is filed as soon as possible after the abandonment is declared. However, the petitioner has to prove that the abandonment was not a result of any intentional acts of the petitioner.

Applicants seeking to abandon an application to avoid publication of the application are urged to do so by filing a petition under 37 CFR 1.138(c) and submitting a declaration of express abandonment and the fee set forth in 37 CFR 1.17(h) in sufficient time to permit the appropriate officials (Office of Data Management ...

An abandoned patent occurs when the inventor doesn't finish the patent process or fails to pay any required fees. With an abandoned patent, you get to take advantage of someone else's hard work. More so, you get the opportunity to expand and improve on the work of others, which is key to fostering innovation.

The signer types their name on the signature line of a document between two forward slashes (for example, /Jimmy Doe/). In the case of conformed signatures, which are another type of s-signature, the signer puts an ?s? between two forward slash marks in front of their typed name (for example, /s/ Jimmy Doe).

An abandoned patent occurs when the inventor doesn't finish the patent process or fails to pay any required fees. With an abandoned patent, you get to take advantage of someone else's hard work. More so, you get the opportunity to expand and improve on the work of others, which is key to fostering innovation.

We often reinstate lapsed patents after non-payment of renewal fees by demonstrating that due care had been taken to meet the deadline. On many occasions this is achieved even when the initial explanation of events suggests that this is unlikely to have been the case.

File a Request for Reinstatement form. File your request for reinstatement no later than two months after the issue date of your Notice of Abandonment. If you didn't receive a Notice of Abandonment, file within two months of learning of the abandonment, but no later than six months after the abandonment date in TSDR.