...to the United States and shall apply only to applications thereafter filed in the United States. § 1.56 Duty of disclosure; striking of applications....the preparation or prosecution of the application. (b) Disclosures pursuant to this section may be made to the Office through an attorney or agent having...

...to the United States and shall apply only to applications thereafter filed in the United States. § 1.56 Duty of disclosure; striking of applications....the preparation or prosecution of the application. (b) Disclosures pursuant to this section may be made to the Office through an attorney or agent having...

...Pub. L. 97-247) [48 FR 2710. Jan. 20. 1983] § 1.56 Duty of disclosure; fraud; striking or rejection of applications. (a) A duty of candor and good faith...the preparation or prosecution of the application. (b) Disclosures pursuant to this section may be made to the Office through an attorney or agent having...

...Jan. 4, 1984; 49 FR 48452, Dec. 12, 1984] § 1.56 Duty of disclosure; fraud; striking or rejection of applications. (a) A duty of candor and good faith...the preparation or prosecution of the application. (b) Disclosures pursuant to this section must be accompanied by a copy of each foreign patent document,...

...inventor, on each attorney or agent who prepares or Title 37 — Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights prosecutes the application and on every other individual...the preparation or prosecution of the application. (b) Disclosures pursuant to this section may be made to the Office through an attorney or agent having...

...information to the Office and the criteria for striking an application when that duty is violated". "Where there is a substantial likelihood that a reasonable...examiner would consider it important in deciding whether or not to allow the application to issue as a patent," the duty of disclosure requires that information,...

...1983, as amended at 49 FR 554, Jan. 4, 1984] § 1.56 Duty of disclosure; fraud; striking or rejection of applications. (a) A duty of candor and good faith...the preparation or prosecution of the application. (b) Disclosures pursuant to this section must be accompanied by a copy of each foreign patent document,...

...profiles shown in the catalog. * [Information is material where there is a substantial likelihood thai a reasonable examiner would consider it important...whether to allow the application to issue as a patent * * *. 37 CFR 1.56(a), third sentence (1983). Page 561 • The trial court also looked to the "Remacks"...

...the scope of the duty may be appropriate. Under rule 1.56, it is necessary to disclose information "where there is a substantial likelihood that a reasonable examiner would consider it Important", even if the information in fact would not affect whether a patent should issue. It is exceedingly difficult...

...clear. Before the 1992 revision, the PTO's regulations deemed information material whenever there was a "substantial likelihood that a reasonable examiner...deciding whether to allow the application to issue as a patent."101 The Federal Circuit endorsed this standard, having concluded that it was the most appropriate...