The Intellectual Property Forum

Sounds interesting.

Two questions out of curiosity:

Are Chinese clients paying comparable fees as US clients for a US national phase patent prosecution?

Do they hire US-based US patent attorneys or China-based US patent attorneys?

"But you have other requirements to do as well - supply a clean sheet with the changes incorporated and detail out what you changed in the accompanying transmittal or comments section.

I believe the general way is to supply a sheet with all the text on that page, i.e. not just the paragraph being changed, and show the changes on that sheet, as well as provide a clean version with no markings."

These are not requirements for making an amendment in a U.S. national phase application (i.e. a U.S. non-provisional application filed under 35 USC 371).

37 CFR 1.121 sets forth the manner of making amendments in all U.S. non-provisional applications (i.e. applications filed under 35 USC 111(a) or 371).

I did not get what you mean by "These are not requirements for making an amendment in a U.S. national phase application (i.e. a U.S. non-provisional application filed under 35 USC 371)."

Are there specific requirements for making amendments in a US national phase application? To me, 37 CFR 1.121 is applicable to US national phase applications. thanks.

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