Law360, New York ( July 18, 2016, 11:34 AM EDT) -- On July 11, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office announced the launch of a new Post-Prosecution Pilot ("P3") aimed at increasing collaboration between patent examiners and applicants. The P3 program was designed to combine the best features of two existing programs, the Pre-Appeal Brief Conference Pilot Program (Pre-Appeal) and the After Final Consideration Pilot Program 2.0 (AFCP 2.0). While the program sounds promising for applicants facing a final rejection, the question remains whether it will suffer from the same drawbacks of the Pre-Appeal and AFCP programs....
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